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Haskell
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- 1 A surname.
"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."
- 2 A surname.; An English surname originating as a patronymic derived from the Old Norse given name Áskell.
- 3 A surname.; A Jewish surname derived from the equivalent of English Ezekiel.
- 4 A male given name transferred from the surname.
- 5 A general-purpose purely functional programming language with support for recursive functions and pattern matching.
"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."
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- 6 A city, the county seat of Haskell County, Texas, United States.
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.
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