Philip Hazel
Born
England[1]
EducationPh.D. Applied mathematics
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge, 1970[1]
OccupationProgrammer
EmployerRetired
Known forExim, PCRE
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Philip Hazel is a computer programmer best known for writing the Exim mail transport agent in 1995[2][3] and the PCRE regular expression library in 1997.[4] He was employed by the University of Cambridge Computing Service until he retired at the end of September 2007. In 2009 Hazel wrote an autobiographical memoir about his computing career which he updated in 2017.[1]

Hazel is also known for his typesetting software, in particular "Philip's Music Writer",[5][6] as well as programs to turn a simple markup into a subset of DocBook XML for use in the Exim manual, and to produce PostScript from this XML.

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References

  1. ^ a b c Hazel, Philip (2017) [2009]. "From Punched Cards To Flat Screens - A Technical Autobiography" (PDF) (2 ed.).
  2. ^ Evi Nemeth; Garth Snyder; Trent R. Hein (2007). Linux administration handbook. Addison-Wesley. p. 621. ISBN 9780137002757. Retrieved 23 December 2010.
  3. ^ Gerald Carter (2003). LDAP system administration. O'Reilly Media, Inc. p. 165. Retrieved 23 December 2010.
  4. ^ Jeffrey E. F. Friedl (2006). Mastering regular expressions. O'Reilly Media, Inc. p. 440. Retrieved 23 December 2010.
  5. ^ "Philip's Music Writer". Retrieved 13 September 2022.
  6. ^ Le Huray, Peter (1990). Authenticity in performance: eighteenth-century case studies. Cambridge University Press Archive. p. 17. Retrieved 23 December 2010.

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