[mmphosis]

I think that most code benefits from better variable names. For ease of typing and for historical reasons, abbreviated variable names are in the C and makefile domain:

BIN = BINary executable

SRCS = SouRCe fileS

OBJS = OBJect fileS

DEPS = DEPendency fileS

CFLAGS = C compiler FLAGS passed as arguments to the C compiler

LDFLAGS = linker or Link eDitor FLAGS passed as arguments to the linker