in reply to POD in 5 minutes

Just a minor point but as a newbie (with pod) what is the purpose of using pod style formatting and not just # comments ? .. I know there is one, but in the context of the article it doesn't mention anywhere how to actually produce readable documentation from it. Thanks for any pointers.

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Re: Re: POD in 5 minutes
by PodMaster (Abbot) on Oct 09, 2003 at 10:55 UTC
    use perldoc, pod2html, pod2man, pod2text, pod2 ... all available from cpan

    update: Here is what I acutally have installed ;)(well, installed in my perl -V:bin ) 

    pod2docbook
pod2htmltree
pod2man
pod2pdf
pod2test
pod2text
pod2usage
pod2xhtml
pod2xml
podchecker
podlint
podselect
podstrip -- mine ;) -> Pod::Stripper
podview  -- gui pod viewer, comes with Prima

    MJD says "you can't just make shit up and expect the computer to know what you mean, retardo!"
    I run a Win32 PPM repository for perl 5.6.x and 5.8.x -- I take requests (README).
    ** The third rule of perl club is a statement of fact: pod is sexy.

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