POD
POD may refer to any of the following:
1. With Perl, POD is short for plain old documentation. It is a simple markup language that allows programmers to add documentation or blocks of comments to their Perl programs. For example, the below Perl code prints "Hello World!" Perl ignores the POD at the end of the script. The POD starts with the "=pod" and ends with "=cut".
#!/usr/bin/perl #Example of using pod for blocks of comments print "Hello World!"; =pod Example text part of the pod and is ignored when Perl runs the script. It can be multiple lines and contain any text and keeps going until it sees the cut line. =cut
2. Short for print on demand, POD describes a technique used by publishers who print books based on demand and not on speculation of demand.
3. POD is an abbreviation used for a podcast.
4. Computer racing game, POD was one of the first games released that supported Intel's MMX (MultiMedia eXtension) technology and was included with many computers that first shipped with MMX as a demonstration.