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• cough and die v. Syn. 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....
• cream and die v. Syn. cough and die, but connotes that an error message was printed or displayed before the program crashed.
• cream and die: v. Syn. {cough and die}, but connotes that an error message was printed or displayed before the program crashed.
  -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• die horribly: v. 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". -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• CCD: Choke Cough and Die
• A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the ligh
  but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it....
• A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
  -- Max Planck...
• die horribly v. The software equivalent of crash and burn, and the preferred emphatic form of
• bug n. An unwanted and unintended property of a program or piece of hardware, esp.
  one that causes it to malfunction. Antonym of feature....