It was Crockford. Directly from him: > I removed comments from JSON because I saw people were using them to hold parsing directives, a practice which would ha

It was Crockford. Directly from him: > I removed comments from JSON because I saw people were using them to hold parsing directives, a practice which would have destroyed interoperability. I know that the lack of comments makes some people sad, but it shouldn't. https://plus.google.com/+DouglasCrockfordEsq/posts/RK8qyGVaGSr https://plus.google.com/+DouglasCrockfordEsq/posts/RK8qyGVaG...