Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. An English patronymic surname derived from the Old Norse given name Áskell.
- n. A Jewish surname derived from the equivalent of English Ezekiel.
- n. A male given name transferred from the surnames.
- n. A functional programming language with support for recursive functions and pattern matching.
Etymologies
- The programming language is named after the logician Haskell Curry. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Benjamin Haskell, 24, was sentenced Monday to nine years in prison for his role in torching the Macedonia Church of God in Christ in Springfield, Mass.”
The Washington Post: Hate-crimes enforcement on rise, reflecting administration priorities
“Write a couple programs in Haskell, but dump the languages before you come to believe that cryptic error messages are tolerable.”
“You won't find witches, ghosts or jack-o-laterns in Haskell's house, but you will find a clown lady giving birth in graphic detail to "the biggest, fattest dude in a diaper" co-directer John Harlacher could find.”
“It's so common in fact that the working title for the next version of Haskell is Haskell '(that is, "Haskell Prime").”
[Programming] The Proper naming pattern: Extract the guts of foo() into fooProper()
“I wrote and e-mailed Haskell and his lawyer; I called Haskell at home at night; his lawyer threatened to sue us; Philo ordered me to stop calling.”
“A bit off-topic, but am I the only one noticing that a person called Haskell wrote about dead languages?”
“It spelled out, in plain English, Haskell's method for removing an intact fetus feet first until the head lodged against the cervix, then poking a hole in the base of the skull and suctioning out the brain.”
“As played by Robert Forster (“Jackie Brown”) in Haskell Wexler’s prophetic low budget movie, TV news cameraman John Cassellis starts off as a jaded jerk who’s more concerned with the opposite sex than the social discontent he captures in his footage.”
“That’s one reason E3 wants to build three to five new plants every year from now on, and Panda already has plans to build its versions of manure-powered ethanol plants in Haskell County, Kansas, and in Yuma, Colorado.”
“Behind Coil and Shackleford at the Haskell was the 2011 Belmont winner, Ruler on Ice.”
The Wall Street Journal: Travers May Reveal Year's Top Horse
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘Haskell’.
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The List of Words
My list of words and the like.
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Tweets
Looking for tweets for Haskell.
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