Compose & conquer
Macneil Shonle, Timothy T. Yuen · 2010
Users have vast amounts of information at their disposal and access to many tools that can compute on that data. Often, no particular program can fulfill a user's needs; or, when such a program exists, it may be too obscure for the user to find. When users encounter this problem, they resort to ad-hoc approaches, such as importing and exporting data to different file formats, as a way to piece together disparate features from several different programs. As a result, users end up manually entering and manipulating data, defeating the purpose of automatic computing machines.