[sirseal]

This is a good critique: it's important to cite the people who have laid the early groundwork, regardless of how far in the past that work was done.

[sgt101]

Maybe every paper should cite Boole, Church & Flowers?

Or maybe not..

[GFK_of_xmaspast]

You gonna cite Newtown and / or Leibniz when you differentiate a function? Use a zero? Don't forget to credit Brahmagupta!

[fatjokes]

Only if you were going to later cite yourself as a pioneer of calculus.

[drdeca]

maybe just #include <standardCitations.h> ?