Haskell — English Dictionary

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1. A surname.

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   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.

2. A surname. An English surname originating as a patronymic derived from the Old Norse given name Áskell.

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3. A surname. A Jewish surname derived from the equivalent of English Ezekiel.

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4. A male given name transferred from the surname.

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5. A general-purpose purely functional programming language with support for recursive functions and pattern matching.

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   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.

6. A city, the county seat of Haskell County, Texas, United States.

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