Z:gnu-www-ja-award-1998--a2dee1-Larry Wall won the Free Softwa/en

Larry Wall won the Free Software Foundation Award 1998 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.