Let's say you wanted to write your own SSH client as a learning exercise. Is it cheating if you use OpenSSL? Is it cheating if you use Python? Is it cheating if you use a C compiler?
Oh, I see you're using an existing ISA and not creating your own for this. And also, where do you get off using existing integrated circuits. From scratch means you have to start from sand and make your own nand gates and get to an adder and a latch and then a cpu and write an operating system for it before you can get to using language that you invented for this purpose.
Let's say you wanted to write your own SSH client as a learning exercise. Is it cheating if you use OpenSSL? Is it cheating if you use Python? Is it cheating if you use a C compiler?