Charles Dwight Marsh

Charles Dwight Marsh (1855–1932) was an American botanist.[1]

Marsh graduated with A.B. from Amherst College in 1877 and with Ph.D. in Zoology and Botany from the University of Chicago in 1904.[2] Employed by the Bureau of Plant Industry, U.S. Department of Agriculture, he was in charge of field experiments on locoweed.[3] In 1912 from January 15 to February 16 he did field research for the Biological Survey of the Panama Canal Zone, where he collected samples of the plankton in fresh waters.[4][5]

Selected publications
gollark: https://esolangs.org/wiki/WHY
gollark: All three.
gollark: Unless you turn up the optimization setting to ~30, at which point it makes quite fast code.
gollark: ```python#!/usr/bin/env python3import argparseimport subprocessparser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Compile a WHY program')parser.add_argument("input", help="File containing WHY source code")parser.add_argument("-o", "--output", help="Filename of the output executable to make", default="./a.why")parser.add_argument("-O", "--optimize", help="Optimization level", type=int, default="0")args = parser.parse_args()def build_C(args): template = """#define QUITELONG long long intconst QUITELONG max = @max@;int main() { QUITELONG i = 0; while (i < max) { i++; } @code@} """ for k, v in args.items(): template = template.replace(f"@{k}@", str(v)) return templateinput = args.inputoutput = args.outputtemp = "ignore-this-please"with open(input, "r") as f: contents = f.read() looplen = max(1000, (2 ** -args.optimize) * 1000000000) code = build_C({ "code": contents, "max": looplen }) with open(temp, "w") as out: out.write(code)subprocess.run(["gcc", "-x", "c", "-o", output, temp])```The compiler for the new `WHY` language. Made as a joke because someone on the esolangs server insisted that all compiled languages were fast.
gollark: BT being bad, who would ever guess so?

References
  1. Oehser, Paul H. (6 August 1937). "Charles Dwight Marsh". Science. 86 (2223): 114–115. doi:10.1126/science.86.2223.114.
  2. Alumni Directory of the University of Chicago, 1861–1906. p. 21.
  3. "Checking the Ravages of "Loco"". Review of Reviews and World's Work. 40: 191–196. 1909.
  4. Completion of the Smithsonian Biological Survey of the Panama Canal Zone. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. 60. 1913. pp. 71–74.
  5. The University of Chicago Magazine. vol. 4. 1912. p. 286.


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