HEAVY WIZARDRY


Meaning of HEAVY WIZARDRY in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ n. ]

Code or designs that trade on a particularly intimate knowledge or experience of a particular operating system or language or complex application interface. Distinguished from deep magic , which trades more on arcane theoretical knowledge. Writing device drivers is heavy wizardry; so is interfacing to X (sense 2) without a toolkit. Esp. found in source-code comments of the form "Heavy wizardry begins here". Compare voodoo programming .

Jargon File English vocabulary.      Английский словарь жаргона.