black magic
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 | This is the JargonFile (V4.00) entry for black magic - Next: Black Screen of Death, Prev: black hole |
| :black magic: /n./ A technique that works, though nobody really understands why. More obscure than voodoo programming, which may be done by cookbook. Compare also black art, deep magic, and magic number (sense 2). | |
| * (text is auto-included via JargonExtension by mutante using jargon with VERSION 4.0.0, 24 JUL 1996 - JargonFile by Eric S. Raymond is in the public domain) | |
