Magic is often used to describe confusing code

Re:Magic is often used to describe confusing code by neuroid on Friday March 25, 2016 @07:00PM (#11363383)

There is nothing magical about computing (unless you use Source Mage [1]). But, I have to agree with the author: people tend to use the word magic if they cannot immediately grasp the meaning of a piece of code. This code might use a language construct we are not familiar with, or implement a complex O(log N) algorithm, or it might use a magic number [2]. In most cases, however, it is worth to spend time to understand such code.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_Mage

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_inverse_square_root#Overv...

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Re:Magic is often used to describe confusing code by jd3 on Friday March 25, 2016 @07:24PM (#11363497)

I wanted to get back into using Sorcerer, but the authors website has gone down (looks like for good this time).. sad

sorcerer.silverice.org

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Re:Magic is often used to describe confusing code by J_Darnley on Friday March 25, 2016 @09:39PM (#11364024)

You could try the Wayback Machine: http://wayback.archive.org/web/*/http://sorcerer.silverice.o...

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