Deconstructing Functional Programming by Gilad Bracha.
From the summary and bio:
Summary
Gilad Bracha explains how to distinguish FP hype from reality and to apply key ideas of FP in non-FP languages, separating the good parts of FP from its unnecessary cultural baggage.
Bio
Gilad Bracha is the creator of the Newspeak programming language and a software engineer at Google where he works on Dart. Previously, he was a VP at SAP Labs, a Distinguished Engineer at Cadence, and a Computational Theologist and Distinguished Engineer at Sun. He is co-author of the Java Language Specification, and a researcher in the area of object-oriented programming languages.
A very enjoyable presentation!
I really like the title in the bio: Computational Theologist.
Further resources:
Dart Language site.
Room 101 Gilad’s blog.
Newspeak Language site.