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I have a concern about the tags , , that I'm not sure how it can be solved properly.

A short summary about the different things:

  • Pascal is the original language, created in the 1970s.
  • Delphi is an object-oriented version of Pascal. Can also be called "Object Pascal".
  • Pascal Script is a component/library that can be used inside Object Pascal applications, letting you run code dynamically within the application. (Kind of like a Java classloader can load external code and run it, but a bit more advanced than that).

I have just re-tagged two questions that were tagged with and tagged them as instead. Because Pascal Script and Pascal are two entirely different things.

However, a problem is that Pascal is not a very popular tag, and it is possible that the questions I re-tagged actually are Delphi / Object Pascal, but only using the basic Pascal features.

Likewise, Pascal-Script is also not a popular tag, ending up with only one questiononly one question after my edits.

I feel that these languages are so similar that I don't think three tags are required. They share so much that perhaps only one tag is required?

It's been a while since used Delphi and/or Pascal though, which is why I am bringing this to meta.

How to sort this out?

I have a concern about the tags , , that I'm not sure how it can be solved properly.

A short summary about the different things:

  • Pascal is the original language, created in the 1970s.
  • Delphi is an object-oriented version of Pascal. Can also be called "Object Pascal".
  • Pascal Script is a component/library that can be used inside Object Pascal applications, letting you run code dynamically within the application. (Kind of like a Java classloader can load external code and run it, but a bit more advanced than that).

I have just re-tagged two questions that were tagged with and tagged them as instead. Because Pascal Script and Pascal are two entirely different things.

However, a problem is that Pascal is not a very popular tag, and it is possible that the questions I re-tagged actually are Delphi / Object Pascal, but only using the basic Pascal features.

Likewise, Pascal-Script is also not a popular tag, ending up with only one question after my edits.

I feel that these languages are so similar that I don't think three tags are required. They share so much that perhaps only one tag is required?

It's been a while since used Delphi and/or Pascal though, which is why I am bringing this to meta.

How to sort this out?

I have a concern about the tags , , that I'm not sure how it can be solved properly.

A short summary about the different things:

  • Pascal is the original language, created in the 1970s.
  • Delphi is an object-oriented version of Pascal. Can also be called "Object Pascal".
  • Pascal Script is a component/library that can be used inside Object Pascal applications, letting you run code dynamically within the application. (Kind of like a Java classloader can load external code and run it, but a bit more advanced than that).

I have just re-tagged two questions that were tagged with and tagged them as instead. Because Pascal Script and Pascal are two entirely different things.

However, a problem is that Pascal is not a very popular tag, and it is possible that the questions I re-tagged actually are Delphi / Object Pascal, but only using the basic Pascal features.

Likewise, Pascal-Script is also not a popular tag, ending up with only one question after my edits.

I feel that these languages are so similar that I don't think three tags are required. They share so much that perhaps only one tag is required?

It's been a while since used Delphi and/or Pascal though, which is why I am bringing this to meta.

How to sort this out?

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Pascal / Delphi / Pascal Script tags

I have a concern about the tags , , that I'm not sure how it can be solved properly.

A short summary about the different things:

  • Pascal is the original language, created in the 1970s.
  • Delphi is an object-oriented version of Pascal. Can also be called "Object Pascal".
  • Pascal Script is a component/library that can be used inside Object Pascal applications, letting you run code dynamically within the application. (Kind of like a Java classloader can load external code and run it, but a bit more advanced than that).

I have just re-tagged two questions that were tagged with and tagged them as instead. Because Pascal Script and Pascal are two entirely different things.

However, a problem is that Pascal is not a very popular tag, and it is possible that the questions I re-tagged actually are Delphi / Object Pascal, but only using the basic Pascal features.

Likewise, Pascal-Script is also not a popular tag, ending up with only one question after my edits.

I feel that these languages are so similar that I don't think three tags are required. They share so much that perhaps only one tag is required?

It's been a while since used Delphi and/or Pascal though, which is why I am bringing this to meta.

How to sort this out?