Haskell tends to attract people who like programming languages as programming languages. It encourages a style that's completely different from what you're taug

Haskell tends to attract people who like programming languages as programming languages. It encourages a style that's completely different from what you're taught in your basic Fortran/C/Java/Matlab course. If, like a lot of scientist, you've done a little imperative programming already, Python isn't much of a step; Haskell, at least as it is presented usually, is another bag entirely. This means you have a much larger audience, and therefore it's more likely that someone will already have written a tool of your domain in Python.