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plain old documentation - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  Plain Old Documentation
  
     <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)