Haskell

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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):

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• Rhymes: -æskəl

Proper noun

Haskell

1. A surname.
   • 2022 July 21, Daniel Walters, “Spokane County Prosecutor Larry Haskell finds himself under attack from three fronts”, in The Inlander‎, 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.

   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.
2. A male given name transferred from the surname.
3. (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.

4. 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