Sunday, 25 June 2023

'Inheritance: A story in pseudo programming language' by Elisa Rivera

 class Woman

Public complexArray society-expectations;

Private list trauma;

Stack cultural-guilt;

    public Impregnated (int age, char education)

         for every judgement loop

Mother = young(age);

        Decisions = education (none); #hence always bad

Woman struggles++;

end loop

    public Working (int salary)

for loop into infinity

         Woman salary < Men salary;

never-ending loop

class Daughter extends Woman 

    public setBetterFuture(int money, char education)

         Woman = daughter = no Money;

setBetterFuture = no chance;

   public startFamily(int attempts)

for each attempt loop

if partner like mother

Reject; 

if partner is abusive

Woman(Daughter) trauma;

Woman(Daughter) cultural-guilt; 

Daughter < mental health;

else 

Daughter blames Woman; 

end if;

end loop

5 comments:

  1. Oh, really love this! :) I'm a sucker for any narrative written in pseudocode....

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    1. Thank you! I don't know why I only thought about this now. :)

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  2. So good Lisa! Very clever and interesting

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