an empty place v3.5

Brown University and The University of Michigan did a joint (hehehe) study on the effects of sleep deprivation and medical students. In the past, similar studies have been done on truck drivers and farmers, but why not software developers? People in this industry often find themselves in a situation requiring long hours, so why hasn't a study been performed on the effects of SD and competent application development? Think about it, programmers wrote the software (and the firmware) used in every embedded or otherwise device on the planet (I'm sorry if this offends, but if you write code to control something, even if its a DSP, you're atleast part programmer). If the people involved in the creation of the code we use in life treatening situations were sleep deprived, should we be worried? Should we then assume some - if not all - of the operating systems we currently use on our desktops today were developed one pot of coffee at a time? That would answer a few questions now wouldn't it.