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The title is likely a hat tip to a famous functional textbook: _ML for the Working Programmer_.

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~lp15/MLbook/




...which is in turn a nod to _Categories for the Working Mathematician_ by Saunders Mac Lane (as is Clocksin's _Clause and Effect: Prolog Programming for the Working Programmer_, and probably several other books.)


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