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scream and die

Synonym cough and die, but connotes that an error message was printed or displayed before the program crashed.


cough and die

<jargon> barf. Connotes that the program is throwing its hands up by design rather than because of a bug or oversight. "The parser saw a control-A in its input where it was looking for a printable, so it coughed and died."

Compare die, die horribly, scream and die.


die horribly

<jargon> The software equivalent of crash and burn, and the preferred emphatic form of die. "The converter choked on an FF in its input and died horribly".


Source: Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

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