manularity

manularity

/man"yoo-la"ri-tee/ ("manual" + "granularity") A notionalmeasure of the manual labor required for some task,particularly one of the sort that automation is supposed toeliminate. "Composing English on paper has much highermanularity than using a text editor, especially in therevising stage." Hackers tend to consider manularity asymptom of primitive methods; in fact, a true hackerconfronted with an apparent requirement to do a computing taskby hand will inevitably seize the opportunity to buildanother tool (see toolsmith).