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You can doubt as much as you want it's just a fact. But I'm not saying it's good either. As much as I like python as a scripting language I don't think that's it should be use as widely as it is now.

Concerning Haskel it still lacks some pragmatism to solve some pratical problems such as install and cabal hell.

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There are countless parsing libraries, compilers and cutting edge research done in Haskell. My guess is that you are thinking of NumPy and similar wrappers over older C/Fortran code. A computer scientist would seek to design something better, perhaps by exploiting algebraic properties not considered by NumPy. Universities teaching Python is a relatively recent phenomenon, perhaps to appease industry.

EDIT: cabal came from industry and was based on ideas from the Java, Python, Ruby communities. The Nix packager better embodies the ideas of Haskell.

> Concerning Haskel it still lacks some pragmatism to solve some pratical problems such as install and cabal hell.

I'd argue stack pretty much solves those:

https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack

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