Your quoted part was preceded by the point of comparison: " In C++ you'd do something like [...]". But more widely, the author is painting a picture of an envi

Your quoted part was preceded by the point of comparison: " In C++ you'd do something like [...]". But more widely, the author is painting a picture of an environment that supports situated programming from many angles. Arguing that other environments also support some mentioned mechanism is missing the forest for the trees.