On Fri, 27 Dec 2002, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:

> VMS is for people who fine Unix too straightforward and uncomplicated.  It
> is the ultimate in security through obscurity.

The joke was that VMS stood for "Very Messy Syntax."  BTW, VMS help pages
appear to be available online at many places including

    http://www-sld.slac.stanford.edu/HELP

For people not familiar with (the pain of) VMS, check out what you had to
do just to change directories:

    http://www-sld.slac.stanford.edu/HELP/SET/DEFAULT/EXAMPLES