> if you remove all comments from your code, it should still execute identically It still -does- execute identically. Provided you install the same dependencie

> if you remove all comments from your code, it should still execute identically It still -does- execute identically. Provided you install the same dependencies. I don't see this as changing the semantics of the code itself, rather just changing the environment in which the code runs. In that respect it is no different from a `#!/bin/bash` comment at the top of a shell script.