I was really excited about Dylan when I was a graduate student in the 1990's. I almost left Taligent to take a job at Harlequin (Functional Objects includes people from the Harlequin Dylan team) working on an OODB for Dylan. The Functional Objects Dylan is the product of some of the best Dylan / Lisp hackers in the world. From a technological perspective this is awesome. Unfortunately, Dylan is now saddled with the baggage of being "that language that Apple abandoned". In recent months Paul Graham's Arc has generated an enormous amount of interest from Lisp (and other people), including myself. I've felt that Arc was to be Lisp's final hurrah. But Arc is nowhere in sight. So where does that leave Dylan? Functional Objects could give the world an amazing piece of technology. I want a better language to work with. Java is fine and C# is basically equivalent to Java. I miss the power of Lisp -- working with Python for pyblosxom is reminding me of that.