Python, if you take away dynamic typing, is very Java like. No pointers, functions/methods always pass by reference, immutable strings, always garbage collecte

Python, if you take away dynamic typing, is very Java like. No pointers, functions/methods always pass by reference, immutable strings, always garbage collected, etc. So if all you did was require static typing in Python, but changed nothing else, it will end up with a lot of java semantics (even if the syntax itself is different).