Functional objects is a presentation by Matthias Felleisen from ECOOP 2004. It was mentioned more than a few times during the past month on the PLT discussion list.
Though it is 74 pages, it doesn’t feel very long; and there is a lot of good content in there. “Java people” will even be happy to see Joshoua Bloch’s quotes scattered liberally about.
Basically it tells a story and makes an argument about how one might go about moving forward with programming, and it does well enough in both regards.
I don’t suppose there’s a video of the talk somewhere, is there?
I didn’t see one there Jay. I just posted to the PLT Discussion List.