Application letters at the Haskell workshop: suggestion

[Johannes Waldmann]

> ... there have been no submissions accepted in the
> `application letters' category for the Haskell workshop.

that seems strange indeed. two reasons come to mind:

a) there ARE no proper real world applications of Haskell
   (only a rather large number of so called pearls)
b) these things do exist, but their programmers 
   don't have the time/energy/whatever to write a proper paper about them
   (for a "real world" conference - that is, a theory conference :-)

if a) then it is bad for Haskell as a whole, 
if b) then a lot of work remains unpublished,
      and thus gets lost (or repeated)

(my view sure is biased since I somehow belong to category b) above -
my main job is to do research and teaching, not programming and documenting)
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