Pod - Text markup language

Pod is a text markup language created in 1997.

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Plain Old Documentation (pod) is a lightweight markup language used to document the Perl programming language.. Read more on Wikipedia...

Pod Wikipedia page
There are at least 0 Pod repos on GitHub
Pod first developed in https://www.perl.org
file extensions for Pod include pod
GitHub supports syntax highlighting for Pod
See also: (10 related languages)Perl, XML, Tex, Markdown, Parrot, Bash, TiddlyWiki, MediaWiki, ASCII, UTF-8
Read more about Pod on the web: 1.

Example from Linguist:

use strict;
use warnings;
package DZT::Sample;

sub return_arrayref_of_values_passed {
  my $invocant = shift;
  return \@_;
}

1;

Example from Wikipedia:

=head1 NAME

My::Module - An example module

=head1 SYNOPSIS

    use My::Module;
    my $object = My::Module->new();
    print $object->as_string;

=head1 DESCRIPTION

This module does not really exist, it
was made for the sole purpose of
demonstrating how POD works.

=head2 Methods

=over 12

=item C<new>

Returns a new My::Module object.

=item C<as_string>

Returns a stringified representation of
the object. This is mainly for debugging
purposes.

=back

=head1 LICENSE

This is released under the Artistic 
License. See L<perlartistic>.

=head1 AUTHOR

Juerd - L<http://juerd.nl/>

=head1 SEE ALSO

L<perlpod>, L<perlpodspec>

=cut