The co-creator of the Erlang, a popular functional programming language has very recently passed on to a higher order function. Here is a great video, promoting Erlang, that he starred in way back in the day.
Check out Erlang The Movie
One on the disadvantages of having a PhD in computer science is that I get asked really difficult questions.
Like - "In gmail on my iPhone I press archive - can I get my mail back?"
and "Why have they changed the interface?"
Why no easy questions like what's a monad?
Joe Armstrong