arcana

Going beyond requires the arcana and the rituals.

Sure, there are hard parts, but how many GPs ever have to delve into the deepest arcana?

Ah, but did they test positive for the sordid quintuple of the major douchebag arcana?

Certainly not I when I'm interviewing you -- where you can trust I will ask you deeper questions than language arcana...

For everyone else, it is a neat bit of computer science arcana that really delves into the nature of integers.

"Then he takes the odd tack of complaining about arcana in the Scala typesystem, and then suggests Haskell as a solution.

If it's relevant to my job, I'll learn about them, but I care more about writing good software than reciting category-theory arcana.

I guess it all breaks down if you don't follow the rules in the first place, and since the rules are just some of the arcana of the british class system, who knows and who cares about them?

All the configuration is done in Lua and you can customize the state with a normal programming language as opposed to the crazy cmake arcana you sometimes have to resort to.

And file formats are in fact arcana to most working programmers, as I've learned by actually having conversations with working programmers that touched on how executable loaders work.