The document discusses the benefits of functional programming including less code, immutability, concurrency and distribution, pattern matching, and higher-order functions. It provides code examples in Scala demonstrating each of these benefits. Specifically, it shows how functional programming can reduce lines of code for calculating factorials, enable concurrency through futures and distribution through parallelization, utilize pattern matching to extract values from data structures and match on types, and leverage higher-order functions like map and fold to operate on collections in a declarative way.