English to program is the same kind of abstraction as going from assembly to program to C to program to high level scripting to "4G languages" and so on, and hiding all kinds of details behind a much terser layer. It's just that it's a qualitative jump at it.

Here's a ChatGPT provided answer asked to "define abstraction in programming, like when going from assembly to C to scripting, etc":

"Abstraction in programming is the process of building layers where each layer hides the details of the layer below".