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.

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.