In object-oriented languages, objects need to be destroyed after their creation to free memory. Destruction can however have a broader meaning. Sometimes, destruction means that resources must be freed or that files must be deleted.
In object-oriented languages, objects need to be destroyed after their creation to free memory. This is not necessarily something that a programmer needs to explicitly instruct. Garbage collected languages such as Java or Python take care of object destruction for you. Other languages such as C++ require the programer to destroy objects explicitly.
Destruction can however have a broader meaning. Sometimes, destruction means that resources must be freed or that files must be deleted.
