Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage accounts and real names

This is a pretty terrible reason, but I'm going to throw it out there: I like real names because they're much more aesthetically pleasing. In my younger days, I once decided, "Hey, I should get a pseudonym" and I picked something fairly ridiculous, just because "everyone else was doing it". I would have appreciated someone to have conked me on the head earlier and said, "No, that pseudonym is stupid" and made me use something else. That said, I think I'd be perfectly happy with a policy that preferred real names, but was willing to take an (obvious) pseudonym if the author insisted. Cheers, Edward