Notes on  AUTOMAGICALLY 

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.

J3N Research Labs

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