http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2012/04/27/yahoos-doug-crockford-on-javascript/ http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2012/04/27/yahoos-doug-cr... "One interes

http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2012/04/27/yahoos-doug-crockford-on-javascript/ http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2012/04/27/yahoos-doug-cr... "One interesting story about leaving things out: as we got closer to releasing JSON I decided to take out the ability to do comments. When translating JSON into other languages, often times the commenting piece was the most complicated part. By taking the commenting out we reduced the complexity of the parsers by half—everything else was just too simple."