I think it already is! See this page on "digital archaeology" describing research that studies developers and software through their "digital remains": http://

I think it already is! See this page on "digital archaeology" describing research that studies developers and software through their "digital remains": http://digitalarchaeology.info/ http://digitalarchaeology.info/ It is ran by a professor at the University of Tennessee: http://web.eecs.utk.edu/~audris/ http://web.eecs.utk.edu/~audris/