you say you’re making computers work in pictures instead of words. i thought they worked in birany code, do they work

Question: you say you're making computers work in pictures instead of words. i thought they worked in birany code, do they work in both. if so, why?
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Asked by frenchfriesyum to Willem on 17 Mar 2014.
- Willem Heijltjes answered on 17 Mar 2014:
  
  Hi frenchfriesyum!
  
  Computers work in binary, but programmers don’t write in binary! They used to in the 1940s, but this was hard work, so in the 1950s we invented programming languages. What I want to do is change the programming language, so that it uses pictures! Underneath, everything will still be binary!

Question: you say you're making computers work in pictures instead of words. i thought they worked in birany code, do they work in both. if so, why?