David Mertz

Greater Los Angeles Area United States

Senior Software Engineer and Senior Trainer at Continuum Analytics, Inc.

Technology / Software / Internet

I have been a writer and researcher about programming topics as well as a hands-on developer in a top research lab; as a writer I write as a practical experienced programmer rather than either as a disinterested journalist or as a theoretical computer scientist. In writing, I am neither swayed by marketing pressure nor shy to introduce abstract concepts where appropriate. My _Charming Python_ column was probably the mostly widely read discussion of the Python programming language worldwide for a number of years. Articles and columns I write on other topics are also well known and well received. My Addison-Wesley book _Text Processing in Python_ is a standard reference on its title top...