Feedback for fpm based on teaching my son

So would people prefer to create their own profiles, or have a new flag or profile perhaps called “best”, or have something like a compiler name ending in a plus trigger turning on “best practices” or …? Making some of these options the default would hinder quick migration of existing code; but perhaps they would be the defaults with a switch to turn them off? Deciding on “best practices” is somewhat arbitrary; but I would like to see files ending in .f treated as free format; a default implicit none and no line length, which are all available via switches on most compilers that are at least f2003. Some people might want automatic interfaces on where available; …

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