Yes, comments tend to be turned over time into hints, directives, etc, etc, etc. But that doesn't change the fact that people put comments into machine protoco

Yes, comments tend to be turned over time into hints, directives, etc, etc, etc. But that doesn't change the fact that people put comments into machine protocols. For another example, lots of machine to machine protocols specify XML. Such as SOAP. They therefore all support comments. In accord to the general trend, eventually they get abused into having a semantic meaning. For example https://support.ptc.com/help/windchill/wc111_hc/whc_en/index.html#page/Windchill_Help_Center/IEUG_SOAPWritingTasks_IEUG_SOAPComments.html https://support.ptc.com/help/windchill/wc111_hc/whc_en/index... shows how one system uses comments in SOAP to create documentation and a WSDL that lets interfaces to your code to be automatically generated. And so comments eventually become executable. But that doesn't change the fact that comments can exist in machine to machine formats.