Man pages are the
documentation of a
UNIX system. They're a very handy
tool that provides
information quickly. I am rather
annoyed at GNU's decision to use
texinfo for documentation; with texinfo, finding what you need becomes more involved, since you can't do a nice
flat search.
This also reminds me of a
joke I heard once: A woman walked up to a
sysadmin, and complained that the
man command was
sexist. So he created a symbolic link named "
woman" pointing at man and told the
lady that "woman" works too. She
nodded and went back to her work,
satisfied. He never heard from
her again.