Merge pull request #43 from certik/scope

Add initial scope for stdlib

Author: certik

README.md

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 # Fortran Standard Library
 
+## Scope
+
+The goal of the Fortran Standard Library is to achieve the following general scope:
+
+* Utilities (containers, strings, files, OS/environment integration, unit
+  testing & assertions, logging,  ...)
+* Algorithms (searching and sorting, merging, ...)
+* Mathematics (linear algebra, sparse matrices, special functions, fast Fourier
+  transform, random numbers, statistics, ordinary differential equations,
+  numerical integration, optimization, ...)
+
+
 ## Getting started
 
 ### Get the code