Re: [Haskell-cafe] Just curios

On Mon, 11 Jun 2007, Stephen Forrest wrote:

On 6/10/07, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:

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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 origin as well, from .)

Bible belt? Curry was born in Millis, Massachusetts, and grew up in Boston.

The word "Haskell" seems to occur much more frequently as a surname, originating in the British Isles. It seems more plausible that he got the name "Haskell" from some relative or family friend somewhere than ascribing a Hebrew origin for his name.

I found this: HASKEL: Hebrew name meaning "intellect." Variant, Haskell, exists. in a list name explanations: http://www.smcm.edu/users/saquade/names.html Tom -- Tom Schrijvers Department of Computer Science K.U. Leuven Celestijnenlaan 200A B-3001 Heverlee Belgium tel: +32 16 327544 e-mail: tom.schrijvers@cs.kuleuven.be