[jmull]

Well, this article certainly shoots itself right in the foot.

If the problem is that some important early contributions to CS are being overlooked, the solution is to promote those contributions.

By framing this as Turing vs. others, the focus is squarely on Turning and his contributions. It puts itself in the position of having to beat down and minimize Turing’s contributions before raising up other contributions. Pretty much setting itself up to fail to convince very many.

Instead, e.g., present the narrative of those early contributions, showing how they provided the foundation Turing worked from.

(edit: I should add: I understand perfectly that the point of this article probably isn’t to actually convince anyone of anything, but is just a hot take meant to get people worked up for the page views. So mission accomplished, from that perspective, I guess.)