A coworker and I were just talking about this, and we decided that it was probably due to the fact that a lot of documentation in Java and .NET is auto generate

A coworker and I were just talking about this, and we decided that it was probably due to the fact that a lot of documentation in Java and .NET is auto generated based on the code comments, which are highly standardized and strictly enforced. Most languages have tools for generating documentation based on code comments, but in Java and .NET you usually end up with a lot of "Here's the signature of the constructor for this class, and here's a list of methods and members." It's lame, and often pretty useless.