Every language has various peculiarities / weirdness, tons of it actually. If you use multiple languages you just get used to this. That is my case and I do not consider it weird. If you stick to 1 or 2 languages than sure - everything else seems weird.

>"they added OOP like string functions" - not sure / forgot what is official name for it but it is not unique to pascal.

Again we have totally different perspective on weirdness.