Haskell

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Haskell

  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.
  3. A male given name transferred from the surname.
  4. (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.
  5. A city, the county seat of Haskell County, Texas, United States.

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