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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 Baright and his father's name was Samuel Silas Curry. Samuel was the President of the School of _expression_ in Boston and Anna was the Dean of the school. Haskell met a student at the School of _expression_ whose name was Mary Virginia Wheatly, who would later become his bride. (Silas Curry's school was one of the motivations for naming my book -- the other being that Haskell programs are just expressions :-) You can learn more about Haskell Curry at: http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Curry.html -Paul Andrew Coppin wrote: OK, so this doesn't actually have anything to do with programming in Haskell, but... |
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