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Wizardly: Adj. Pertaining To Wizards. A Wizardly {feature} Is One That Only A Wizard Could Understand Or Use Properly.
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:wizardly: adj. Pertaining to wizards. A wizardly {feature} is one
that only a wizard could understand or use properly.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
Related:
wizardly adj. Pertaining to wizards. A wizardly feature is one that only a wizard could understand or use properly.
magic: adj. 1. As yet unexplained, or too complicated to explai
compare {automagically} and (Arthur C.) Clarke's Third Law...
UNIX weenie: [ITS] n. 1. A derogatory play on `UNIX wizard', common among hackers who use UNIX by necessity but would prefer alternatives.
The implication is that although the person in question may consider mastery of UNIX arcana to be a wizardly skill, the only real skill involved is the ability to tolerate (and the bad taste to wallow in) the incoherence and needless complexity that is alleged to infest many UNIX programs....
whizzy: [Sun] adj. (alt. `wizzy') Describes a {cuspy} program
one that is feature-rich and well presented. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
Knights of the Lambda Calculus: n. A semi-mythical organization of wizardly LISP and Scheme hackers.
The name refers to a mathematical formalism invented by Alonzo Church, with which LISP is intimately connected....
elite adj. Clueful. Plugged-in. One of the cognoscenti.
Also used as a general positive adjective. This term is not actually hacker slang in the strict sense...
Unix weenie n. [ITS] 1. A derogatory play on `Unix wizard', common among hackers who use Unix by necessity but would prefer alternatives.
The implication is that although the person in question may consider mastery of Unix arcana to be a wizardly skill, the only real skill involved is the ability to tolerate (and the bad taste to wallow in) the incoherence and needless complexity that is alleged to infest many Unix programs....
hackish: /hak'ish/ adj. (also {hackishness} n.) 1. Said of something that is or involves a hack.
2. Of or pertaining to hackers or the hacker subculture....
UTSL: // [UNIX] n. On-line acronym for `Use the Source, Luke' (a pun on Obi-Wan Kenobi's "Use the Force, Luke!
in "Star Wars") --- analogous to {RTFS} (sense 1), but more polite....