Managed languages rely on the garbage collector. According to Wikipedia article on garbage collection, it is:
In computer science, garbage collection (GC) is a form of automatic memory management. The garbage collector, or just collector, attempts to reclaim garbage, or memory used by objects that are no longer in use by the application. Garbage collection was [...]
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