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0 pointsShinchy9y ago0 comments

That... is actually quite a cool name.

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tronje9y ago· 1 in thread

I'm not sure if you mean the judge's entire name or the name 'Haskell', but just in case you didn't know: Haskell (the language), as well as the functional concept of currying were both named after a mathematician called Haskell Curry :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haskell_Curry

dllthomas9y ago

> both named after a mathematician called Haskell Curry

... who, purportedly, hated his name :-P

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