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TPI: Larry Wall wins Free Software Foundation Award

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.

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.

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