I've heard this same quip a lot, and I don't understand it either. I pored through a lot of PHP documentation to write an angry blog post about it, and it was

I've heard this same quip a lot, and I don't understand it either. I pored through a lot of PHP documentation to write an angry blog post about it, and it was unbelievably painful; documentation for simple extensions was broken into a dozen tiny useless pages, obvious cross-references were missing, similar items are documented in radically different places, etc. There's a lot of text, sure, but it's poorly organized and not all equally useful.