Haskell
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Alternative forms
Etymology
- The programming language is named after American logician Haskell Curry (1900–1982).
- As an English surname, from the Middle English personal name Askell, from Old Norse Áskell. Compare Axtell, Askin, Haskin, Hasty, Astin.
- As a surname in the Isle of Man, a variant of Castell, itself related to the above.
- As a Jewish surname, from Khaskl, a Yiddish form of Yeḥezqel, see Ezekiel.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈhæskəl/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -æskəl
Proper noun
Haskell
- A surname.
- 2022 July 21, Daniel Walters, “Spokane County Prosecutor Larry Haskell finds himself under attack from three fronts”, in The Inlander[1], archived from the original on 21 December 2025:
- But with Haskell having the advantage of the incumbent — losing in the primary would be a big upset — and Conklin running as a third-party independent, with her legal experience as a Clallam County prosecutor 35 years in the past, the big fight to advance to the general from the Aug. 2 primary could come down to Stephanie vs. Stefanie.
- A male given name transferred from the surname.
- (computer languages) A general-purpose purely functional programming language with support for recursive functions and pattern matching.
- 2014, Alejandro Serrano Mena, Beginning Haskell: A Project-Based Approach, Apress, →ISBN, page 5:
- By default, Haskell uses an execution strategy called lazy evaluation. Under laziness, an expression is never evaluated until it is needed for the evaluation of a larger one.
- A city, the county seat of Haskell County, Texas, United States.
Derived terms
Translations
language
of or relating to Haskell
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The programming language
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Further reading
- Haskell (programming language) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia