The universe has always been interconnected-- something that isn't always emphasized enough in books on cosmology.

When ARPA and others originally designed the Internet, they wanted something that would bounce back from a massive perturbation (i.e. a nuclear blast). Whether deliberately or by accident, they created a miniature form of the most stable system-- the evolutionary ecosystem.

Ecosystems are extensively (but not totally) interconnected. So's the Internet.

So, if the Internet's an ecosystem, what's Perl?

stephen