[task #5698] First draft of CONTRIBUTING file

[Ben Pfaff]

Follow-up Comment #2, task #5698 (project pspp):

> "The program must be written in C or Fortran"
>
> I don't think that this requirement is necessary. A lot of people are
using
> Octave/Matlab for statistical/neural net work these days. We could
probably
> understand what's going on in most languages.

But I don't think Jason *wants* to translate or rewrite completely the
contributor's code.  I think he wants them to contribute working code in C,
to which Jason adds some additional code that makes it work in PSPP.

I have some comments of my own that I'll post separately.

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