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 Definitions for automagically: Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)
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automagically /aw-toh-maj'i-klee/ adv. Automatically, but in a way
that, for some reason (typically because it is too complicated, or too
ugly, or perhaps even too trivial), the speaker doesn't feel like
explaining to you. See magic. "The C-INTERCAL compiler generates C,
then automagically invokes `cc(1)' to produce an executable."
This term is quite old, going back at least to the mid-70s in jargon
and probably much earlier. The word `automagic' occurred in advertising
(for a shirt-ironing gadget) as far back as the late 1940s.
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)
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automagically
/aw-toh-maj'i-klee/ or /aw-toh-maj'i-k*l-ee/
Automatically, but in a way that, for some reason (typically
because it is too complicated, or too ugly, or perhaps even
too trivial), the speaker doesn't feel like explaining to you.
E.g. "The C-INTERCAL compiler generates C, then automagically
invokes cc to produce an executable."
See magic.
[Jargon File]
(2001-05-18)
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