I'm with the OP on this, I've experience with Java, C#, Python & C++.
I'm a big fan of rapid prototyping with Python to map out problem domains, and once the domain has been mapped properly, rewriting in a statically typed language if necessary.
Python is much better for prototyping than the other langs I've used. Because the syntax is almost pseudocode, and the duck-typing makes a lot of design patterns and boilerplate obsolete, so I can dedicate my headspace to the problem at hand.