The title of this article reminded me of that one time when I found a small programming app for android with a very limited language. It had some basic variable

The title of this article reminded me of that one time when I found a small programming app for android with a very limited language. It had some basic variables, if statements and a drawing routine for solid colour circles. It contained no function calls and I don't think it allowed for loops. What it did have was timers which took a piece of callback code and could be set to repeat that code with a given frequency. It was all very simplistic and restricted, so I spent an evening making a breakout clone in it, just to see if I could. That was a lot of frustrating fun.