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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>manularity</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="mangler.html" title="mangler"/><link rel="next" href="marching-ants.html" title="marching ants"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">manularity</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="mangler.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="marching-ants.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="manularity"/><dt xmlns="" id="manularity"><b>manularity</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/man`yoo·la´ri·tee/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [prob. fr. techspeak <span class="firstterm">manual</span> +
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<span class="firstterm">granularity</span>] A notional measure of
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the manual labor required for some task, particularly one of the sort that
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automation is supposed to eliminate. “<span class="quote">Composing English on paper has
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much higher manularity than using a text editor, especially in the revising
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stage.</span>” Hackers tend to consider manularity a symptom of primitive
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methods; in fact, a true hacker confronted with an apparent requirement to
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do a computing task <a href="../B/by-hand.html"><i class="glossterm">by hand</i></a> will inevitably seize
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the opportunity to build another tool (see
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