[spam][crazy] coding therapy [beginner]: hello world with conditional

[Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & Survivor of Many]

Often when my reality is upside-down and inside-out and my body won't
obey me because I considered contributing to an anonymity project or
something, I find it nice to work on very simple software to try to
engage a struggling skill.

An Exercise In Software: Hello World With Conditional

It goes something like this:

if (1) {
  print("hello world');
} else {
  print("hello back from the world!");
}

Conditionals seem to me a step up from a single statement, so it's a
nice structural addition.

You can do it in any language, or even pseudocode. You can put
anything you want in the conditional, and output any statements you
want, or even do something other than outputing! But if you add
variables or further control flow, you are advancing to a further
stage.

If you actually need this, than further use of control flow may
stimulate mind control discouraging grassroots software, at which time
it may be relaxing to return to an earlier stage like this one, to
practice.