Haskell

English

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.

Haskell (countable and uncountable, plural Haskells)

A surname.
- 2022 July 21, Daniel Walters, “Spokane County Prosecutor Larry Haskell finds himself under attack from three fronts”, in The Inlander‎^[1], archived from the original on 26 March 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.
A male given name transferred from the surname.
(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.
A place in the United States, including:
1. An unincorporated community in Wanaque borough, Passaic County, New Jersey, named after Jonathan Haskell. ^[1]
2. A city, the county seat of Haskell County, Texas.

language

of or relating to Haskell

The programming language