Some of its goals are: An extended version of pod that supports tables and footnotes called PseudoPOD has been used by O'Reilly & Associates to produce several Perl books, most notably Programming Perl by Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, and Jon Orwant.
Pod makes it easy to write manual pages, which are well suited to user-oriented documents.
This includes Perl itself, nearly all publicly released modules, many scripts, most design documents, many articles on Perl.com and other Perl-related web sites, and the Parrot virtual machine.
Pod is rarely read in the raw, although it is designed to be readable without the assistance of a formatting tool.
In source code files, the documentation is generally placed after the __END__ marker (which also helps syntax highlighting in some editors to display it as comments).
This document is syntactically correct pod, which attempts to follow the major conventions on section naming as well.