It becomes obvious after some use that the Dylan syntax was not designed for short definitions and toy programs. Rather, it's meant for large blocks of code with really-long-variable-names. And after a while of writing large blocks of code with really-long-variable-names, one begins to appreciate the syntax the way it is.

Many such people try a simple "Hello, World" app and then give up. If that were the only way to judge development software, we wouldn't even be using C.