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Assuming communication and overlap between the founding groups of Computer Science and Scientific Magic, I'd propose overlapping Jargon as well. Paying attention to context is critical, because a UTM-Mage who has the Hacker nature and a Computer Scientist of exceptional skill will both be called a Wizard. (An actually wizardly hacker-mage could be called a Guru.) "Hedge-Wizard", which Doug has already used as a term of mild-to-moderate derision, is a longer (though often shortened to "hedgie" or simply "hedge"), more broadly-applied, and magic-only version of hackish "munchkin": a pre-larval-stage UTM mage is a hedgie, but so is someone who relies on the magical equivalent of voodoo programming and is entirely ignorant of UTM.
Alternately and more simply (and more usefully for this Step, because it reduces confusion with the local use of "wizard"), why not have the computer science and scientific magic crowds overlap so much that they use largely the same jargon? People already use prefixes when distinctions are needed (Unix Wizard, for example), so just extend that a little: "Yeah, Joe in the Applied Theology department has the hacker nature and is a wizard with Voudun, but sit him at a computer terminal and he's a chainik."
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