I am using commercial program that is well-known in the field in which I work. It has a scripting language for building models in a flexible manner but most of the code I have written has been quite straightforward. More recently I had to come up with something a little more elaborate and it was only then I realised that the language is hanging firmly to its Fortran underpinnings. The two main clues were; 1) no definition of Pi, and 2) trigonometric functions limited to SIN, COS and ATN. This took me back more than 30 years to when I was programming in BASIC for an ICL 2900 machine. For my current script I needed arccosine and my maths teachers will not be surprised to know that I had forgotten the half-angle equivalence that allows you to calculate ACOS using ATN (thanks Wikipedia). For Pi, since I was already wimping out, I eschewed the usual 355/113, or even something like 833719/265381, and instead used Machin's approximation (as that also uses ATN).
This weekend I decided to watch O Lucky Man! for the first time in ages - it takes a good while to gird oneself up to deal with that one scene (you know which one). It was only while watching it this time that I noticed the strange resemblance between Alan Price and Steve Jobs. For those of you not familiar with Mr. Price, try the image here. Maybe I am imagining things as as putting "Steve Jobs" and "Alan Price" in The Google doesn't result in any "separated at birth?" theories. Maybe it's the Tyneside accent that puts people off...