This is a talk for the BFPG on the 2013-07-23. It covers a broad area of topics, ranging from what FP is and why you'd want to go to the trouble of using such abstractions.

This is the reveal js source content of the slides. You probably want to go here: http://whyfp.benkolera.com or view the pdf slides https://github.com/benkolera/why-fp/blob/master/slides.pdf?raw=true (that aren't very good).