I would think that the increased productivity of Python over C++ has more to do with Python being a higher level language than static typing per-se. I'm transl

I would think that the increased productivity of Python over C++ has more to do with Python being a higher level language than static typing per-se. I'm translating some Python into C++ right now for performance reasons. Manual memory management, lack of list comprehensions, and many other things are making it slower to write than the Python was but having to specify types is really the least of it. The extra visual noise often makes the code less readable but that isn't true of all static languages.