I'm currently looking at several softwares that can be used to translate COBOL/FORTRAN coded applications to JAVA , C++ or VB.net

All help are appreciated.

Why of all people are you using VB.Net? Hehe.

i mean it has the option to translate to either one of those. not to all. part of research.

@off topic
you got transport to the conference? i'm trying to arrange transport for all of us.

there are COBOL/Fotran to C compilers out there especially from GNU. Converting non-OO languages to OO languages is nearly impossible to be automated.

AFAIK, Cobol has a LOT of dialects, which is going to make your translation a little tough. Most do manual memory management I think, which will be irritating when you want to port it into a managed framework.

@OT: Not too sure, might be driving if i can figure out the way and parking costs.

any other suggestions?