Amusingly, it originally did have comments. Removing comments was the one change Crockford ever made to the spec[1]. [1] https://web.archive.org/web/2015010508

Amusingly, it originally did have comments. Removing comments was the one change Crockford ever made to the spec[1]. [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20150105080225/https://plus.google.com/+DouglasCrockfordEsq/posts/RK8qyGVaGSr https://web.archive.org/web/20150105080225/https://plus.goog... (thank you Internet Archive for making Google’s social network somewhat accessible and less than useless)