I believe the word you&#x27;re looking for is sisyphean, and I actually don&#x27;t agree.<p>You&#x27;ve yet to make the case that the fundamentals of computing science are changing so much that documenting them is not a worthy task.<p>Again, basic algorithms and data structures simply have not changed.  Their performance characteristics, methods for optimal implementation, etc, certainly have as computer architectures have evolved (think reordering CPUs, multi-level caches, changes to data storage technology, etc).  But the basic algorithms remain the same.  Quicksort is still quicksort.<p>It&#x27;s true that over the last decade some new concepts have reached a new prominence (e.g., lock-free data structures), but those are additions to the field.  They certainly don&#x27;t invalidate the basics.