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+## PirObject: a Perl data model libray
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+This is Perl library, PirObject.pm, which provides
+a simple way to model data objects.
+
+The full documentation can be found in a plain text
+file inside the repository, in [docs/PirObjectManual.txt](https://github.com/prioux/PirObject/blob/master/docs/PirObjectManual.txt).
+
+There is little need for such a library in the modern
+programming world, it is here mostly as service to
+historical systems built using it.
+
+#### History
+
+This is a complete re-implementation of a software module called
+"PomObject.pm" that was originally written and used internally at
+Incyte Genomics (now Incyte Corporation) from 2000 to 2004. More
+history can be found in the documentation file PirObjectManual file.
+
+The original distribution platform for this software was SourceForge;
+it can still be found there at [https://sourceforge.net/projects/pirobject/](https://sourceforge.net/projects/pirobject/) ;
+there is even a crummy project page at [http://pirobject.sourceforge.net/](http://pirobject.sourceforge.net/) !
+The code was maintained in CVS, but was converted to a GIT repository
+thanks to two fine piece of software:
+
+* The excellent utility [cvs2git](http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/cvs2git.html)
+* Some of my own bash wrapper scripts for converting CVS to GIT.
+