The node above, where you refer to license is a clarifier. But it should have been in the OP, originally. Instead, you originally posted this:
"Does anything restrict me from doing this? What would I need to do to find this out?"
But now the mention of a license raises two other questions:
- Do you not know that no license is required to use Perl for whatever you wish? and,
- Is it your desire to write a compiler for an existing language or to write a compiler for a new language of your own devising?
Please, make your questions precise and complete ...
...and please, don't update a node (especially one with replies) without a clear note explaining what you changed!