A classic, over a decade old and worth making the rounds again:

Functional Programming in C++

by John Carmack

From the article:

My pragmatic summary: A large fraction of the flaws in software development are due to programmers not fully understanding all the possible states their code may execute in. ... No matter what language you work in, programming in a functional style provides benefits.  You should do it whenever it is convenient, and you should think hard about the decision when it isn’t convenient.

... C++ doesn’t encourage functional programming, but it doesn’t prevent you from doing it, and you retain the power to drop down and apply SIMD intrinsics to hand laid out data backed by memory mapped files, or whatever other nitty-gritty goodness you find the need for. ...