Haskell tends to attract people who like programming languages as programming languages. It encourages a style that&#x27;s completely different from what you&#x27;re taught in your basic Fortran&#x2F;C&#x2F;Java&#x2F;Matlab course. If, like a lot of scientist, you&#x27;ve done a little imperative programming already, Python isn&#x27;t much of a step; Haskell, at least as it is presented usually, is another bag entirely.<p>This means you have a much larger audience, and therefore it&#x27;s more likely that someone will already have written a tool of your domain in Python.