I've never paid the matter much attention but tend to lean, largely from inertia, toward the Stratfordians. But I've always wondered: did de Vere publish much under his own name and, if so, how does the language -- the vocabulary, sentence structure, phrasing, etc. -- line up with that of "Shakespeare." I thought there were computer programs that could compare two texts (of reasonable length) and estimate the probability that they were written by the same person.