Re: [MacPerl] Shuck, AS, Perl, whatever, Pt 3.

[Andrew McRae <mcrae@internet.com>]

On Sat, 1 Mar 1997, Bart Lateur wrote:
> Shuck doesn't use html, but a vaguely comparable file format, known as
> "pod" (Pages Of Description).

POD stands for, and is intended to support, Plain Old Documentation.

> It is a rather widely accepted format on Unix systems.

No, Larry Wall invented it for Perl 5. As he says in the "perlpod" page
(that's "Various->Documentation format" under Shuck's "Go" menu: 

    "I'm just trying to make an idiot-proof common source for
     nroff, TeX, and other markup languages, as used for online
     documentation."

Andrew.
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