From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Dylan
n 1: United States songwriter noted for his protest songs (born
in 1941) [syn: Dylan, Bob Dylan]
2: Celtic god of the waves; son of Arianrhod
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008) [foldoc]:
DYnamic LANguage
Dylan
<language> (Dylan) A simple object-oriented Lisp dialect,
most closely resembling CLOS and Scheme, developed by
Advanced Technology Group East at Apple Computer.
Thomas is a Dylan compiler implemented in Scheme.
See also Marlais.
["Dylan(TM) an Object-Oriented Dynamic Language", {Apple
Computer}, Eastern Research and Technology, April 1992].
(1995-04-19)