Haskell

English

Alternative forms

• Hascall, Heiskell

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

1. An English surname originating as a patronymic derived from the Old Norse given name Áskell.
2. A Jewish surname derived from the equivalent of English Ezekiel.
3. A male given name transferred from the surname.
4. (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.

5. A city, the county seat of Haskell County, Texas, United States.

Derived terms

• Haskeller
• Haskell County

Translations

language

• Arabic: هاسكل
• Dutch: Haskell
• Esperanto: Haskell
• French: Haskell (fr) m
• German: Haskell
• Italian: Haskell
• Japanese: Haskell [sic]
• Polish: Haskell
• Portuguese: Haskell
• Serbo-Croatian: Haskell m

of or relating to Haskell

• French: de Haskell, Haskell
• Italian: Haskell
• Serbo-Croatian: haskelovski

The programming language

• French: en Haskell
• Serbo-Croatian: haskelovski

Further reading

• Haskell (programming language) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia