It does indeed. Things like amount of unit tests and comments are influenced heavily by this effect. It's elaborated further in The Pragmatic Programmer (http

It does indeed. Things like amount of unit tests and comments are influenced heavily by this effect. It's elaborated further in The Pragmatic Programmer (http://pragprog.com/titles/tpp/the-pragmatic-programmer http://pragprog.com/titles/tpp/the-pragmatic-programmer), which actually introduced me to the concept some time back.