haskell
/ˈhæskəl/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.26 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A general-purpose purely functional programming language with support for recursive functions and pattern matching.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
Etymology
* 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.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: -, Áskell