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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>cough and die</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../C.html" title="C"/><link rel="previous" href="cosmic-rays.html" title="cosmic rays"/><link rel="next" href="courier.html" title="courier"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">cough and die</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="cosmic-rays.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">C</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="courier.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="cough-and-die"/><dt xmlns="" id="cough-and-die"><b>cough and die</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">v.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Syn. <a href="../B/barf.html"><i class="glossterm">barf</i></a>. Connotes that the program is
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throwing its hands up by design rather than because of a bug or oversight.
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“<span class="quote">The parser saw a control-A in its input where it was looking for a
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printable, so it coughed and died.</span>” Compare
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<a href="../D/die.html"><i class="glossterm">die</i></a>, <a href="../D/die-horribly.html"><i class="glossterm">die horribly</i></a>,
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