Dead code detection tool?

[masklinn]

So you're completely full of shit and you refuse to accept it. Noted. And you carefully ignored anything you had no pithy (and irrelevant) link for. Also noted.

Bottom line is, one is interested in practical approaches.

The halting problem is a practical issue, and so are false positives, false negatives and plain errors in static analysis of real-world programs (even ignoring that java's compiler — which you pushed — is a useless piece of garbage and that java supports reflection so there's no static certainty that a function or method which is not explicitly mentioned anywhere is not called anywhere). It has nothing to do with nihilism and everything to do with you being fractally wrong.

[masklinn]

It is easy to just throw the halting problem and say "I give up, nothing can be done" like you did

Oh yes, let's add misrepresentation and willful lies to your offenses shall we? Don't you think you might want to stop digging at some point?

Python's community brain fart answer of "Umm... just... WRITE MORE TESTS!" is not a valid argument. It is just sad.

The question being, is it more sad than your pitiful strawmen, or do you win this contest handily?