Coding or non-coding: Need they be exclusive?

"The molecular structure of proteins is determined by specific elements, the structural genes. They act by forming a cytoplasmic transcript of themselves, the structural messenger, which in turn synthesizes the protein", from Genetic Regulatory Mechanisms in the Synthesis of Proteins, written by Francois JACOB & Jacques MONOD in 1961 [1]. Exactly 50 years later, ............