Why tuples use parentheses ()'s instead of something else like <>'s?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2004-12-29, Dan Sommers <me at privacy.net> wrote:

> They're guillemets (with an "e"); this is a [relatively] well-known
> Adobe SNAFU.

Ah. Googling for "guillemots punctuation" did turn up enough
hits that it didn't occur to me that I was using the wrong
spelling.

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