[rogeroga]

I say that if you can organize well a messy closet or kitchen you have a basic skill to be a good ok programmer.

Not necessarily means that all good programmers are superb closet organizers, but they should be able to face clutter and leave things much better than how they found them.

[lmm]

I don't think those are the same skills at all. Organizing a program is about merging the things that are the same and separating the things that are different. Organizing a closet is about putting things in categories, but 20 identical shoes need just as much space as 20 different shoes.