Philip Hazel is a computer programmer best known for writing the

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mail transport agent in 1995 and the PCRE regular expression library in 1997. He was employed by the

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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

manual, and to produce PostScript from this XML.

Published works

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References

External links

Philip Hazel's personal website
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