OK, so this doesn't actually have anything to do with programming in
Haskell, but...
How in the name of God does a human being end up walking around with a
name like "Haskell B. Curry"?
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On Jun 10, 2007, at 6:16 , Andrew Coppin wrote:
OK, so this doesn't actually have anything to do with programming
in Haskell, but...
How in the name of God does a human being end up walking around
with a name like "Haskell B. Curry"?
You're pretty close, actually :) Names derived from H
As reported in the recent HOPL paper, A History of Haskell,
Haskell Brooks Curry actually didn't like his first name! I learned
this when I visited his wife, Virginia Curry, at the time when we
decided to name a language after her husband.
By the way, Haskell Curry's mother's name was Anna Ba
On 6/10/07, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
You're pretty close, actually :) Names derived from Hebrew were
fairly common in the Bible belt back when he was born. ("Haskell"
from השקל, wisdom. I half suspect "Curry" has a Biblical origin
as well, from קרי.)
Bible belt
For what it's worth, a handful of people who have ordered Haskell
merchandise from the CafePress store over the years have had
"Haskell" as a surname. I assume they look at the designs before they
buy, and I can't imagine what they think of some of them, but I guess
the allure of having you
On Mon, 11 Jun 2007, Stephen Forrest wrote:
On 6/10/07, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
You're pretty close, actually :) Names derived from Hebrew were
fairly common in the Bible belt back when he was born. ("Haskell"
from , wisdom. I half suspect "Curry" has a Biblical
Paul Hudak wrote:
As reported in the recent HOPL paper, /A History of Haskell/, Haskell
Brooks Curry actually didn't like his first name! I learned this when
I visited his wife, Virginia Curry, at the time when we decided to
name a language after her husband.
Yes... I recall reading that som
On 6/11/07, Andrew Coppin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
"Of course, our biggest mistake was using the word 'monad'. We should
have called it 'warm fuzzy thing'..."
You know that thing called "Google"? ;)
http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/92
Among others.
Thomas Schilling wrote:
On 6/11/07, Andrew Coppin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
"Of course, our biggest mistake was using the word 'monad'. We should
have called it 'warm fuzzy thing'..."
You know that thing called "Google"? ;)
http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/92
Among others.
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