This paper introduces and discusses ^-rewriting systems, which represent languagegenerating devices that resemble automata by using finitely many states without any nonterminals. It demonstrates that these systems characterize the well-known infinite hierarchy of language families resulting from programmed grammars of finite index in a very natural way. In its conclusion, this paper suggests some variants of #-rewriting systems.
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