manularity
/man"yoo-la"ri-tee/ ("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}).
[{Jargon File}]
(1994-10-26)