assertion vs comment

assertion

noun
  • The act of asserting; positive declaration or averment. 

  • A statement in a program asserting a condition expected to be true at a particular point, used in debugging. 

  • A statement or declaration which lacks support or evidence. 

  • Maintenance; vindication 

  • Something which is asserted; a declaration; a statement asserted. 

comment

noun
  • A spoken or written remark. 

  • A remark embedded in source code in such a way that it will be ignored by the compiler or interpreter, typically to help people to understand the code. 

  • The part of a sentence that provides new information regarding the current theme. 

  • The act of commenting. 

verb
  • To make remarks or notes. 

  • To insert comments into (source code). 

  • To comment out (code); to disable by converting into a comment. 

  • To remark. 

How often have the words assertion and comment occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )