[chowells]

It's a very language-dependent meaning. In C, the only type of crash is the OS shutting it down on some sort of trap. Everything else is the result of an explicit code path. Since we're talking about C, it's the definition I'm using. In other contexts, other definitions will apply.

[troad]

Definitely! An interesting distinction. I spend much of my time in the BEAM these days, where "let it crash" is a common practice with a very distinct meaning (green threads under supervisor trees, etc). Different strokes.