Hooks definitely meet the dictionary definition of the term “functional programming”.
Like Wikipedia states, you’re conflating “functional programming” with “pure functional programming”.
Like Wikipedia states, you’re conflating “functional programming” with “pure functional programming”.
Definition of functional (from Wikipedia page you linked to): In functional programming, functions are treated as first-class citizens, meaning that they can be bound to names (including local identifiers), passed as arguments, and returned from other functions, just as any other data type can.
In C language you can do all that. But C is not a functional programming language at all. Neither is Hooks functional. Even assembly language has "functions" but it is not a "functional language".
They're not functional first like F# or Scala.
A programming language can embrace multiple paradigms.
Well then so is assembly language.