Philip Hazel
Encyclopedia
Philip Hazel is a computer programmer best known for writing the Exim
mail transport agent and the PCRE regular expression library. He was employed by the University of Cambridge
Computing Service until he retired at the end of September 2007. In 2009 Philip wrote an autobiographical memoir about his computing career.
Philip 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 DocBook
XML
for use in the Exim
manual, and to produce PostScript
from this XML.
Exim
Exim is a mail transfer agent used on Unix-like operating systems. Exim is free software distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, and it aims to be a general and flexible mailer with extensive facilities for checking incoming e-mail....
mail transport agent and the PCRE regular expression library. He was employed by the University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...
Computing Service until he retired at the end of September 2007. In 2009 Philip wrote an autobiographical memoir about his computing career.
Philip 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 DocBook
DocBook
DocBook is a semantic markup language for technical documentation. It was originally intended for writing technical documents related to computer hardware and software but it can be used for any other sort of documentation....
XML
XML
Extensible Markup Language is a set of rules for encoding documents in machine-readable form. It is defined in the XML 1.0 Specification produced by the W3C, and several other related specifications, all gratis open standards....
for use in the Exim
Exim
Exim is a mail transfer agent used on Unix-like operating systems. Exim is free software distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, and it aims to be a general and flexible mailer with extensive facilities for checking incoming e-mail....
manual, and to produce PostScript
PostScript
PostScript is a dynamically typed concatenative programming language created by John Warnock and Charles Geschke in 1982. It is best known for its use as a page description language in the electronic and desktop publishing areas. Adobe PostScript 3 is also the worldwide printing and imaging...
from this XML.
Published works
- Exim: the Mail Transfer Agent (O'Reilly MediaO'Reilly MediaO'Reilly Media is an American media company established by Tim O'Reilly that publishes books and Web sites and produces conferences on computer technology topics...
, 2001) - The Exim SMTP Mail Server, (UIT Cambridge, 2003, 2nd edition 2007)
- From Punched Cards To Flat Screens, 2009
External links
- quercite Philip Hazel's personal website