mangler n.
[DEC] A manager. Compare management. Note that system mangler is somewhat different
in connotation.
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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).