Dignified die

Among users of the Perl programming language, the term dignified die is jargon for a case where a programmer anticipates a particular error and sends the information to an error handler function that, for instance, outputs to an error log file and ends the program with some sort of informative error message.

The term arises from the common use in perl of the die statement in the idiom "command or die", where if command fails, the program will simply unceremoneously exit with an uninformative error message.