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voodoo programming
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n. [from George Bush Sr.'s voodoo economics ] 1. The use by guess or
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cookbook of an obscure or hairy system, feature, or algorithm that one does
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not truly understand. The implication is that the technique may not work,
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and if it doesn't, one will never know why. Almost synonymous with black
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magic , except that black magic typically isn't documented and nobody
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understands it. Compare magic , deep magic , heavy wizardry , rain dance ,
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cargo cult programming , wave a dead chicken , SCSI voodoo. 2. Things
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programmers do that they know shouldn't work but they try anyway, and which
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sometimes actually work, such as recompiling everything.
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