10 Jun
2007
10 Jun
'07
1:15 p.m.
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 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.) -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH