Comments on: More Rejected Narbonic Strips

By: John Dallman

John Dallman — Sun, 06 Sep 2020 20:47:51 +0000

Were “Life-threatening prank calls to Harlan Ellison” threats made to Harlan, or was Artie just realistic about the risks of pranking him?

By: Rex Vivat (sirgarberto)

Rex Vivat (sirgarberto) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 22:36:03 +0000

@Leon: Of course she knows that BASIC is higher level than C. "I could easily write an even faster version in BASIC, for heaven's sake" wouldn't be a much of a boast otherwise.

By: Ed Gedeon (eddurd)

Ed Gedeon (eddurd) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 22:36:02 +0000

A few years back, I was actually hired for a job to convert one critical routine from C to machine code. Cut the execution time by 70%. My one technical triumph of my career.

By: Leon Arnott (l)

Leon Arnott (l) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 22:36:01 +0000

For what it’s worth Unix isn’t a programming language. And BASIC is actually a higher level than C, since it’s an interpreted language for beginners. Everyone probably already told you this six years ago, but I can’t resist.

The implication of the crossover strip seems to be that they’ve unwittingly changed history and returned to a Victorian version of reality. Which actually sounds pretty interesting, insofar as it’s a twist on regular time-travel and parallel world story arcs. I’d like to see what all of Helen’s tech got converted into.

By: John Ames (commodorejohn)

John Ames (commodorejohn) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 22:36:00 +0000

I dunno, I kinda like the “Hiccup” strip. It has that Mell-‘n-Artie groove going.