Perl/CPAN v. Ruby ?

[Graham Seaman]

Dan Sheppard wrote:

>
> And all of a sudden we're bizarrely thrown back into the strange world 
> of 1960s "tape clubs", only much less "George and Maud sitting on the 
> deck-chairs at Shanklin talking about ornithology and the roadworks on 
> the north circular" 

What on earth was that? How did it work? Through the post? Or through 
some kind of tape library?

Graham