deep magic
:deep magic: n. [poss. from C. S. Lewis's "Narnia" books] An awesomely
arcane technique central to a program or system, esp. one neither
generally published nor available to hackers at large (compare {black art}
}); one that could only have been composed by a true wizard
Compiler optimization techniques and many aspects of OS
design used to
be deep magic
many techniques in cryptography, signal processing,
graphics, and AI still are. Compare heavy wizardry
Esp. found in
comments of the form "Deep magic begins here...". Compare {voodoo programming}
.
Jargon File Version 4.3.1, 29 JUN 2001 =
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