Merge pull request #15 from LKedward/fc21-state-of-fortran

Add: abstract for 'The State of Fortran'

Author: LKedward

FortranCon2021-state-of-fortran/README.md

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+# FortranCon2021: The State of Fortran
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+__Presenter:__ [Laurence Kedward](https://github.com/LKedward)
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+__Co-Authors:__
+Bálint Aradi,
+Ondřej Čertík,
+Milan Curcic,
+Sebastian Engel,
+Rohit Goswami,
+Michael Hirsch,
+Asdrubal Lozada-Blanco,
+Vincent Magnin,
+Arjen Markus,
+Emanuele Pagone,
+Ivan Pribec,
+Brad Richardson,
+Harris Snyder,
+Carlos Une,
+John Urban,
+Jérémie Vandenplas
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+__Session:__ Fortran-lang minisymposium (10 min)
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+__Abstract:__
+A new community of developers has formed to unite Fortran users and modernize the Fortran ecosystem.
+In this presentation, we describe the high-level features of Fortran that continue to make it a good choice for scientists and engineers in the 21st century. We will also outline ongoing community efforts including the development of a Fortran standard library and package manager, the fostering of a friendly and welcoming online community, improved compiler support, and language feature development.
+The lessons learned are common across contemporary programming languages and help reduce the learning curve and increase adoption of Fortran.