Yes, thanks! (I still haven't learned the English names for the various brackets, it seems... In my mind, the ones with the straight angles are the "angle" ones.)

() parenthesis

[] brackets

{} braces

For those learning English: parenthesis is the singular, parentheses the plural:

  (  opening parenthesis
  )  closing parenthesis
  () parentheses
  (( two opening parentheses
  )) two closing parentheses

Way more info at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bracket

And for those learning etymology, parenthesis comes from ancient Greek:

Parenthesis, from "para" (next, beside, near) and "enthesis" (embedd, inline). So, essentialy to "inline near/next to something" (what we do with a parenthetical phrase).

"Brackets" means () in standard usage (at least where I'm from); you need to say "square brackets" if you want to clearly mean [].

So is there are single-word name for "angle brackets", the ones you write with less-than/greater-than symbols?

If I had my way, I'd call them pointyparens.

The Hacker's Dictionary (http://www.dourish.com/goodies/jargon.html) calls them Brokets, as shorthand for "broken brackets".

And, by the way, the less pointy variant that is used in 'proper' typography is called a chevron or guillemet (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillemet)