However, a garden with a few plants is to farming as 'print "Hello World"' is to software development, and I was definitely doing the latter at 5 years of age w

However, a garden with a few plants is to farming as 'print "Hello World"' is to software development, and I was definitely doing the latter at 5 years of age without any trouble. I'm too young, but older farmers have suggested to me that it was television portraying farmers in a not so intelligent light that brought on that reputation. Wikipedia hints at this as well: 'Starting with The Real McCoys, a 1957 ABC program, US television had undergone a "rural revolution", a shift towards situation comedies featuring "naïve but noble 'rubes' from deep in the American heartland"'[1]. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rural_purge#Background http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rural_purge#Background