No doubt. In any case, the author notes his main influences in footnote 3, and those are not part of that. It seems he has a more practical than academic background in this.

The author of the talk, Vivek Sarkar, is co-author in both the X10 paper from 2004 and the Habanero paper of 2011.

That's why those are not part of his influences, he co-wrote those papers.

I was referring to the author of vorpus post I posted.

Ah I see.