For better or worse, I'm convinced that this is the reason that PHP took off the way it did. The documentation was clear, concise, easy to access (perhaps the f

For better or worse, I'm convinced that this is the reason that PHP took off the way it did. The documentation was clear, concise, easy to access (perhaps the first example of user friendly URLs I can remember), and effective; That each function had user-submitted (moderated) comments was the icing on the cake. I've seen this (similarly highly-voted) comment made elsewhere. I just don't get it. The PHP docs are often woefully incomplete in their explanation of functions. The user-submitted comments are the blind leading the lame, often containing competing solutions to the same problems, all of which are incomplete and poorly documented. Aside from several highly-voted comments in discussions, though, the PHP documentation doesn't seem to be a frequently cited example of quality. I find that strange.