This always sounds nice, but I've found that ceremony almost never really reduces productivity by much. The real wins/losses almost never have to do with ceremony related features of language, but rather architectural and framework components.

You build something that evolves by bringing in the smallest architecture and least fx components and then build. The language you use may dictate the fx components to some extent -- otherwise it's typically just to make developers feel happy (which is important, but really is just about morale more than anything truly inherent in the productivity of the language).