MIX - Novell's de Icaza criticizes Microsoft patent deal (LinuxWorld)

Exactly. 

User interface code, application logic, and such things are better written in a high level
language more often then not. Stuff that is common to most applications should be stuck in
libraries and it makes sense to spend the time to get those optimized and such because the
benifit is spread out across the entire desktop and all types of applications.

It also does not make sense to deny Gnome the use of Python or Mono in their shipped product
because some programmers prefer Ruby or Lua. And it does not make sense that Gnome should
incorporate support for all scripting languages equally because _that_ is serious bloat. So
there has to be a choice made and so far Gnome's has been Python and Mono.