According to his example in the first few paragraphs, he calls "Smalltalk and Lisp" modern and "Perl and Unix" postmodern, so the postmodern view would correspo

According to his example in the first few paragraphs, he calls "Smalltalk and Lisp" modern and "Perl and Unix" postmodern, so the postmodern view would correspond to the "Worse is Better" ( https://duckduckgo.com/?q=worse+is+better https://duckduckgo.com/?q=worse+is+better ) approach.