.file extension POD - Perl POD-formated text
.PODFile extension POD description:
Plain Old Documentation, commonly abbreviated as POD, is a simple platform-independent documentation tool for the computer language Perl. POD is designed to be a simple, clean language with just enough syntax to be useful. It purposefully does not include built-in mechanisms for fonts, images, colors or tables; instead it attempts to be just large enough to be useful.
Associated applications to file extension POD:
Company / developer:
Adobe Systems Incorporated
Adobe ExtendScript
The ExtendScript Toolkit (ESTK) is a development and debugging tool for JavaScript scripts included with Adobe CS3 Suites and applications such as Bridge, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and After Effects. ESTK is a new and enhanced version that allows you to create, edit and debug ExtendScript (Adobe's JavaScript language) all with an updated user interface, a new text engine, and the ability to debug more than one script at a time.
Company / developer: Perl
Perl Facts
- Perl is a stable, cross platform programming language.
- It is used for mission critical projects in the public and private sectors.
- Perl is Open Source software, licensed under its Artistic License, or the GNU General Public License (GPL).
- Perl was created by Larry Wall.
- Perl 1.0 was released to usenet's alt.comp.sources in 1987
- PC Magazine named Perl a finalist for its 1998 Technical Excellence Award in the Development Tool category.
- Perl is listed in the Oxford English Dictionary.
Supported Operating Systems
- Unix systems
- Macintosh - (OS 7-9 and X) see The MacPerl Pages.
- Windows
- VMS
- And many more...
Perl Features
- Perl takes the best features from other languages, such as C, awk, sed, sh, and BASIC, among others.
- Perls database integration interface (DBI) supports third-party databases including Oracle, Sybase, Postgres, MySQL and others.
- Perl works with HTML, XML, and other mark-up languages.
- Perl supports Unicode.
- Perl is Y2K compliant.
- Perl supports both procedural and object-oriented programming.
- Perl interfaces with external C/C++ libraries through XS or SWIG.
- Perl is extensible. There are over 500 third party modules available from the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN).
- The Perl interpreter can be embedded into other systems.
Perl and the Web
- Perl is the most popular web programming language due to its text manipulation capabilities and rapid development cycle.
- Perl is widely known as " the duct-tape of the Internet".
- Perl's CGI.pm module, part of Perl's standard distribution, makes handling HTML forms simple.
- Perl can handle encrypted Web data, including e-commerce transactions.
- Perl can be embedded into web servers to speed up processing by as much as 2000%.
- mod_perl allows the Apache web server to embed a Perl interpreter.
- Perl's DBI package makes web-database integration easy.