David Mertz

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David Mertz is a columnist who writes for IBM's developerWorks site, Intel Developer Services, O'Reilly's ONLamp, and other online publications, and maintains the public domain Python package Gnosis Utilities. He was previously an academic philosopher who wrote about postmodernist ideas. Columns he writes include Charming Python and XML Matters; he has also written individual articles on other topics.

Mertz is author of the Addison Wesley book (ISBN 0321112547) Text Processing in Python, which is also published as a free-as-in-beer online book. Some papers on esoteric and flatfooted programming topics, including such subjects as Metaclass programming in Python, multiple dispatch, cryptology, a Haskell programming language tutorial, etc. are popular in certain circles.

As well, Mertz has several papers on open source voting software. Mertz is Chief Technology Officer of the Open Voting Consortium.

External links

Gnosis Software, a website maintained by Mertz
Mertz's Wikipedia user page

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