Re:YAML: probably not so great after all (2017)
by jasonjayr on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @09:23PM
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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.
> 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/RK8qyGVaG...