Not to take away from Haskell, but this is exactly why many people in academia use Python. It's easy to express an idea in it, and test at a low performing leve

Not to take away from Haskell, but this is exactly why many people in academia use Python. It's easy to express an idea in it, and test at a low performing level. Then when you know where your bottle necks are, you can re-write that tiny bit in Cython and gain 90% of the speed improvement of writing the whole thing in C.