A key to understand the VMS

[Sam G]

Sam, perhaps it's a good idea to hold a competition based on that: 
who can write the best and shortest program (and publish the source code) that generates the Voynich text.

I've thought that it would be interesting to have a sort of "arms race" where someone creates a code that generates VMS-like text, then people find ways in which the text differs from the actual VMS text, then the code is updated to account for these differences, then more differences are found, then the code is updated again, and so forth.  While I don't think the VMS is procedurally generated gibberish, we could probably learn some things from such an exercise.

Unfortunately, nobody promoting the idea that the text was generated by some procedure seems to be very interested in matching all or even most of the VMS text's actual properties.  Instead people come up with procedures that account for a small number of the VMS text's properties and declare victory.