It's nice to think that. Actually Larry was trying to find the the rabbit as quickly as the KGB, but really the Perl story should go like this:

- NRO satellite photos show unidentified creature with long ears.
- Appears to be eating elongated orange object.
- NSA reports unusually high frequency of the character string "rabbit" in intercepted communications.
- Larry Wall, a young and upcoming hacker, helps to decode the communications with a new language he calls "Perl".
- Larry Wall appointed to high-level governmental committee to study the problem and make recommendations.
- State Department tries to get allied support for a preventative strike against attack rabbit network reported to have been recently activated.
- Delta force rumored to be hunting rabbits in Mojave Desert.
- CIA tries to infiltrate agents into target area. But station chief has cover blown by investigative reporter from the Iranian newspaper "Hares-bullah Star and Crescent".
- 6th Fleet sets sail for Middle East on routine training mission, planned months in advance.
- Helicopter assault group gets lost in sandstorm, with heavy casualties resulting.
- Rabbits pose with corpses, proclaim a great victory.
- Air Force jets bomb rabbit hutch, hitting nearby chicken coop instead. Some jets lost to unknown enemy countermeasures, chicken feathers reported near engines of downed jets.
- Rabbit disappears into desert with badly scratched paw.
- Decides to become a pacifist and go into pharmaceutical business.