Haskell

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Etymology

The programming language is named after the logician Haskell Curry.

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Haskell

  1. An English patronymic surname 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 surnames.
  4. A general-purpose purely functional programming language with support for recursive functions and pattern matching.
  5. A city in Texas, USA, and the county seat of Haskell County.

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