manularity

manularity /man`yoo-la'ri-tee/ n.  [prob. fr. techspeak
   `manual' + `granularity'] A notional measure of the manual
   labor required for some task, particularly one of the sort that
   automation is supposed to eliminate.  "Composing English on paper
   has much higher manularity than using a text editor, especially in
   the revising stage."  Hackers tend to consider manularity a
   symptom of primitive methods; in fact, a true hacker confronted
   with an apparent requirement to do a computing task {by hand}
   will inevitably seize the opportunity to build another tool (see
   {toolsmith}).



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