Re: [MacPerl] "the pod"

[Matthias Ulrich Neeracher <neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch>]

Peter Van Avermaet <PVanAver@inetgate.capvolmac.nl>
>May I take this opportunity to ask what "the pod" is ?

pod stands, I think, for "plain old documentation", and is a very lightweight
markup format. pod can still be read as plain text, but also is easily
translated into well formatted HTML, *roff, LaTex, and PostScript.
All Perl5 documentation is written in pod.

Matthias

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Matthias Neeracher   <neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch>   http://www.iis.ee.ethz.ch/~neeri
  "Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise
   anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be
   clear and certain, must be exceedingly simple-minded..."
                                                -- Plato, _Phaedrus_