Posted by <gnu@gnu.org> to gnu.announce:
Larry Wall won the Free Software Foundation Award for the Advancement of Free Software for his many contributions to the advancement of freely distributed software, most notably Perl, a robust scripting language for sophisticated text manipulation and system management. His other widely-used programs include rn (news reader), patch (development and distribution tool), metaconfig (a program that writes Configure scripts), and the Warp space-war game.
"... Perl, a tool that takes the UNIX ideas of flexibility and portability further than almost any program before it. Perl is probably the most powerful and widely applicable GNU program."
"Larry Wall has always promoted keeping his implementations free for all to study, enhance, and build on, without restrictions, and the freedom for all to benefit in whatever ways they can from his products."
