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Add Goals and Motivation section into README
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# Fortran Standard Library
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## Goals and Motivation
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The Fortran Standard, as published by the ISO (https://wg5-fortran.org/), does
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not have a Standard Library. The goal of this project is to provide a community
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driven and agreed upon *de facto* "standard" library for Fortran, called a
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Fortran Standard Library (`stdlib`). We have a rigorous process how `stdlib` is
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developed as documented in our [Workflow](WORKFLOW.md). `stdlib` is both a
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specification and a reference implementation. We are cooperating with the
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Fortran Standards Committee (e.g., the effort
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[started](https://github.com/j3-fortran/fortran_proposals/issues/104) at the J3
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committee repository) and the plan is to continue working with the Committee in
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the future (such as in the step 5. in the [Workflow](WORKFLOW.md) document), so
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that if the Committee wants to standardize some feature already available in `stdlib`, it would
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base it on `stdlib`'s implementation.
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## Scope
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The goal of the Fortran Standard Library is to achieve the following general scope:

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