Joseph D. Darcy's Sun Weblog

Thursday May 08, 2008

JavaOne: Java + You = ...

In this year's JavaOne pavilion, you can get shirt's printed with your own answer to this year's conference theme posed as a question

JAVA + YOU = ?

While "JAVAYOU" would be a string-centric programmatic answer, with my floating-point czar hat on, my answer to this summation is "K9K4", which I computed with the following program:

public class JavaPlusYouSum {
    private static final String JAVA = "JAVA";
    private static final String YOU  = "YOU";
    private static final int RADIX = 36;

    public static void main(String... args) {
	int sum =
	    Integer.parseInt(JAVA, RADIX) +
	    Integer.parseInt(YOU, RADIX);
	
	System.out.printf(JAVA + " + " + YOU + " = " + 
			  Integer.toString(sum, RADIX));
    }
}

However, I'm confident less numerical answers will be more useful and satisfying in most contexts :-)