Is Ruby a functional language?

Question

Wikipedia says Ruby is a functional language, but I\'m not convinced. Why or why not?

Answer 1

Ruby is an object-oriented language, that can support other paradigms (functional, imperative, etc). However, since everything in Ruby is an object, it's primarily an OO language.

example:

"hello".reverse() = "olleh", every string is a string object instance and so on and so forth.

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