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For those of us inclined to fish nets... Tim Curry is also a fair reference.
But yes - Haskell Curry has leant his name to Haskell and Currying.
Funny thing is that when the creators of the language told H.C.'s widow about it, she said he never really was fond of his name.
I tried that currying once... Now all my Algorithms are in the one place that hasn't been corrupted by capitalism
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