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There's 4,284,794 results for "if(false)" on GitHub:

https://github.com/search?q=%22if%28false%29%22&type=Code&re...

Looking more like a trend ... PHP biggest culprit

- PHP 2,333,198 - JavaScript 491,084 - C 306,891 - C++ 198,900 - Java 169,748 - Python 106,708 - HTML 85,903 - Ruby 57,830 - Smalltalk 28,647 - C# 24,813

All Smalltalk ones are valid code that will be executed though.

#ifFalse: is a message that is sent to a boolean and takes a closure as an argument.

I think you just found out that PHP is a very widely used programming language. To make a more meaningful comparison, divide by the total lines of code.

PHP wins

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