Merge pull request #5 from everythingfunctional/fpm

Add fpm abstract

Author: milancurcic

FortranCon2020-fpm/README.md

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+# FortranCon2020-fpm
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+**Presenter** [Brad Richardson](https://github.com/everythingfunctional)
+
+**Co-authors**:
+[Ondrej Certik](https://github.com/certik),
+[Milan Curcic](https://github.com/milancurcic).
+
+**Title**: Fortran Package Manager
+
+**Abstract**:
+While Fortran is the oldest high level language, it has done quite well in
+keeping up with the times in terms of features and capabilities of the language
+itself. However, modern practices and developers have become accustomed to tools
+and ecosystems which provide many conveniences in a programming environment.
+Unfortunately, Fortran has not kept pace with such tooling and ecosystems. One
+such tool which has become popular is a package manager. A package manger is a
+tool that manages the dependencies of a project on other libraries. This is
+accomplished by keeping track of the dependencies, with specifiable version
+constraints, and automating the process of fetching them - including transitive
+dependencies - for use in the compilation of the project. Often included are the
+facilities for compiling, running, and testing the project, as well as searching
+for available open source libraries, and generating a template for new projects.
+This paper describes the development of just such a tool for Fortran, aptly
+named the Fortran Package Manager (FPM).