PHP is just as old and when I learnt PHP 14 years ago the docs were really friendly back then too, I loved being able to go to php.net/func_name and get a good

PHP is just as old and when I learnt PHP 14 years ago the docs were really friendly back then too, I loved being able to go to php.net/func_name and get a good description of how it worked. Of course this is for the standard library, which is what the article talks about, but PHP's standard library (at least then) had much more of the kitchen sink thrown in it.