Philip Hazel is a

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best known for writing the Exim mail transport agent in 1995 and the PCRE regular expression library in 1997. He did undergraduate studies at the

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and went to the

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for his PhD. He arrived in Cambridge in 1967 where 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. Hazel is also known for his typesetting software, in particular " Philip's Music Writer", as well as programs to turn a simple markup into a subset of

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for use in the Exim manual, and to produce

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from this XML.

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Philip Hazel's personal website
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