I like how your system doesn't use a password, just links to a hash you can't change. The Eligius guys take it a step further and your payment hash is your username, no pw or accounts.
I'm a bit of a programming language nut. The pool was originally written because I wanted to try out the language runtimes and see how well they worked. I used to do what Eligius does too, back when 'mmpool' wasn't merge mining but was a namecoin pool. When I switched to merge mining I had to somehow associate multiple addresses with a user. When I did the ppcoin pool I used the same pool code after I'd done the user modification thinking that sometime in the future I'd enable merge mining with ppcoin as the primary chain but I couldn't get that working.
What I ended up doing was starting up a local ppcoin server and putting into cgminer as a second pool in load balance mode. So in theory I'll solo mine if coinotron is down. In theory...
a sad sad day for us all :~( 
