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<text> (pod, occasionally "POD") A simple markup language used to embed documentation, literate programming-style, in Perl programs. Pod readers and converters are part of the standard Perl distribution and the documentation provided with Perl is all in pod format.

The Pod Specification (http://perl.com/CPAN-local/doc/manual/html/pod/perlpod.html).

(1998-12-18)