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It is even worse, we had decent answers for some of the stuff back in the 40s, 50s and 60s (e.g. Dijkstra's work on concurrency, before there even were computers to run them on.) Someone will reply to my comment with Lovelace or Babbage or Pascal :-/

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Not super aware of what Djikstra's work on concurrency you're referring to are. I've had to try to implement things from CS research papers directly and have always had a _bit_ of trouble (disclaimer: I'm dumb), and appreciate this book getting down to the implementation details in a bit of a fool-proof way.

Of course this book is a bunch of "research papers" stapled together in some sense but the act of curating is quite nice

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