Haskell

Proper noun

Haskell (countable and uncountable, plural Haskells)

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...2022 July 21, Daniel Walters, “Spokane County Prosecutor Larry Haskell finds himself under attack from three fronts”, in The Inlander, archived from the original on 21 Dec 2025
   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.
2. A male given name transferred from the surname.
3. 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.2014, Alejandro Serrano Mena, Beginning Haskell: A Project-Based Approach, Apress, →ISBN, page 5
4. A city, the county seat of Haskell County, Texas, United States.