Wizardly in a sentence as an adjective

If you like, you could see it as him listening to his wizardly maker's intuition.

Thanks, Mr Curtis, for the insightful wizardly pronouncement to the masses.

Doing one of the mighty wizardly things might work, but it often has side effects that only a wizard will know.

I'm interested in a site to augment the wizardly elisp or Haskell guy you run into occasionally, who you know could show you "the way".

Are you saying that somehow AstraZeneca has wizardly accountants that Apple does not?

As a writer, I'm often surprised how easy it is fill pages and pages, and as a reader, I'd rather read clear expository prose than wizardly hand-waving.

After a decade of experience, I would say this is a greater asset than wizardly technical expertise, and a harder skillset to refine.

It's connotation is an eccentric, extremely smart, almost wizardly scientist.

But it works: I decided a while ago to go back and learn the parts of CS that I skipped that felt unreachably wizardly to me. I'm currently working, very slowly, through the excellent Coursera compilers class, 25 minutes at a time on the bus to and from work.

Some people clone a github project and just learn Lambda Prolog by reading source; some peruse books; I've meet some wizardly hackers who seem to know every possible thing already.

Same thing in computing -- female office workers who can do wizardly things with spreadsheets and accounting systems often don't see themselves as having any aptitude for computing or programming.

And what they are promising to the long-abused desktop users sounds amazing to them, like wizardly magic, and literally, and almost entirely, boils down to this: freedom from having to deal with the shitty wireless networking script system.

"I know personally I'm good enough to do magical, wizardly stuff"In my experience really good developers don't see it like that, they see it more like the Brian Kernighan quote:"Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place.

> "I know personally I'm good enough to do magical, wizardly stuff with all the cool stuff that Swift gives me but you, well, you need some training wheels so we're gonna use Go for this project".It could also be that he realizes that he is a PL snob/geek, and that makes him more likely to pick up and learn weirder/'more powerful' languages/paradigms.

I get this sentiment and more than once I've wished there were more constraints in the language to mitigate the damage some kid with a chip on their shoulder could do but it says something about the psychology of programmers, "I know personally I'm good enough to do magical, wizardly stuff with all the cool stuff that Swift gives me but you, well, you need some training wheels so we're gonna use Go for this project".I don't know about you but I'd rather work with people that understand the tools they are using and when it's OK to do fun stuff and when it is important to exercise restraint and "dumb it down" for the good of the team.

Wizardly definitions

adjective

possessing or using or characteristic of or appropriate to supernatural powers; "charming incantations"; "magic signs that protect against adverse influence"; "a magical spell"; "'tis now the very witching time of night"- Shakespeare; "wizard wands"; "wizardly powers"

See also: charming magic magical sorcerous