Yes, memory is memory in the same sense that exponentiation is just repeated addition of 1 to number. The article isn't really talking about memory so much as d

Yes, memory is memory in the same sense that exponentiation is just repeated addition of 1 to number. The article isn't really talking about memory so much as discussing storage, which is often colloquially called 'memory' by people who do not deal with it directly. What the article is trying to do is to distinguish between scoped storage and non-scoped storage. Those are two of the 4 types of storage used in a modern programming language abstract machine. All of the 4 types of storage have backing memory allocated in different ways and at different times an initialized through different sequences, but also on modern processors are usually processed in registers, which are synchronized to their backing store through various levels of cache in different ways as well. The article is a very simplistic introduction to basic abstract storage concepts targeted at a complete beginner. I would have expected an article about memory management to discuss the different types of memory, or maybe cacheing, or about how memory allocation and garbage collection works. But it's fine as a very high-level introduction to how storage works in a typical programming language abstract machine.