We had two Word documents describing a couple of in house APIs and related stuff that we wanted to move over to a TWiki based Wiki. Someone suggested to me that Perl was good for that sort of thing so I learned Perl. Shortly after starting I heard of PerlMonks and the rest, as they say, is history.

Oh, and yes, I did get the documents translated even to the extent of retaining most of the original links and document structure.

Although that first project took far longer than it should have, even considering I was learning the language as I went (I kept 'improving' the translation), Perl has repaid the effort many fold since.