tool: Scorpion System

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Language:	Candle, IDL (Interface Description Language)
Version:	6.0
Parts:	software development environment for developing software development environments, documentation
Author:	University of Arizona
Location:	ftp://cs.arizona.edu/scorpion/*
Description:	20 tools that can be used to construct specialized programming environments. The Scorpion Project was started by Prof. Richard Snodgrass as an outgrowth of the SoftLab Project (which pro- duced 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.
Reference:	"The Interface Description Language: Definition and Use," by Richard Snodgrass, Computer Science Press, 1989, ISBN 0-7167-8198-0
Ports:	Sun-3, Sun-4, Vax, Decstation, Iris, Sequent, HP9000
Discussion:	info-scorpion-request@cs.arizona.edu
Contact:	scorpion-project@cs.arizona.edu
Updated:	November 4 1993

language: IDL

category: compiler generators and related tools summary, or expanded.

category: text manipulation summary, or expanded.