I liked this too, but interesting that the Makefile uses the `-free` flag for cobc

I assume fixed is a subset of free? So perhaps a few lines somewhere aren’t perfect.

the code is similar to fixed format, but the location of the comments gives away that it is actually in free format.

* comments use *> at start of line, though I'm not sure i'll keep that

* indentation is flexible, but i prefer how fixed looks

* no column restrictions