As Goethe wrote: ”In der Beschränkung zeigt sich erst der Meister” (“the master shows himself through self-limitation”).

One can see this as a form of constrained writing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constrained_writing)

Demos (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoscene) and The submissions to the International Obfuscated C Code Contest (http://ioccc.org/) also are examples of this.