Twenty tools that can be used to construct specialised programming environments. The Scorpion Project was started by Prof. Richard Snodgrass arizona.edu> as an outgrowth of the SoftLab Project (which produced the IDL Toolkit) that he started when he was at the {University of North Carolina}. The Scorpion Project is directed by him at the University of arizona and by Karen Shannon at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Version 6.0 runs on Sun-3, Sun-4, VAX, Decstation, Iris, Sequent, HP9000. See also Candle. . Mailing list: info-scorpion-request@cs.arizona.edu. E-mail: arizona.edu>. (1993-11-04)