I agree that Gordon deserves great praise and recognition!
One clarification: My discussion of Zhdanov was based on Gordon’s work: he volunteered for GWWC in the early days, and cross-posted about Zhdanov on the 80k blog. In DGB, I failed to cite him, which was a major oversight on my part, and I feel really bad about that. (I’ve apologized to him about this.) So that discussion shouldn’t be seen as independent convergence.
I agree that Gordon deserves great praise and recognition!
One clarification: My discussion of Zhdanov was based on Gordon’s work: he volunteered for GWWC in the early days, and cross-posted about Zhdanov on the 80k blog. In DGB, I failed to cite him, which was a major oversight on my part, and I feel really bad about that. (I’ve apologized to him about this.) So that discussion shouldn’t be seen as independent convergence.