Posted by Rick on the 17th of October, 2008 at 11:53 pm under ublog.    This post has Comments.

Just watched the December 2007 Google Authors session with Randall Munroe, creator of the XKCD webcomic.  Really good talk; he seems like a real geek, which is awesome.  He inspired me to sign up for Project Euler, which I have.  I did the first problem in a couple of minutes, and visited the forum to find out what kind of code others were writing.  I continue to love lisp, so I think I’ll be tackling the challenges in Clojure.  The first problem yields to some basic list operations:

(reduce + (filter #(or (= (rem %1 3) 0) (= (rem %1 5) 0)) (range 1000)))

We’ll see how well Lisp holds up for the later problems.