Haskell.
A surname.
Meaning & usage
A surname.
A surname. An English surname originating as a patronymic derived from the Old Norse given name Áskell.
A surname. A Jewish surname derived from the equivalent of English Ezekiel.
A male given name transferred from the surname.
A general-purpose purely functional programming language with support for recursive functions and pattern matching.
A city, the county seat of Haskell County, Texas, United States.
Where this word comes from
* 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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