I don't like that you're being downvoted. You're making a fair point. I do like the second half of the article, for the record. I think that attribution matter

I don't like that you're being downvoted. You're making a fair point. I do like the second half of the article, for the record. I think that attribution matters; albeit probably more the attribution to Church and Turing than to Steve Russell over McCarthy. It matters because if someone finds the ideas the article brings up interesting and wants to dig into them, they should know where to turn. The history of ideas informs future ideas to come. I also think understanding the details of high-level ideas matters. The misconceptions about self-interpretation, for example, are quite deep: no language can ultimately be defined in terms of itself, but always in terms of something lower-level. Chase this thread far enough and you start studying transistors; or, in another direction, Goedel's incompleteness theorems.