Understanding Grammar #2: Ambiguity, Elimination, and Boolean Expressions

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what langugage??

grammar #1:

S->(L)|a
L->L,S|S

what language does this grammar generate? some strings generated by this grammar r (a,a), (a,(a,a))...

grammmar #2:

bexpr->bexpr or bterm| bterm
bterm-> bterm and bfactor| bfactor
bfactor-> not bfactor| (bexpr) | true | false

is this grammar ambiguous? if so then why?
is there any way to eliminate ambiguity?
how do i show that this grammmar generates all boolean expressions? i can see it but how do i proceed to prove it?
 
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when you type L,S do you mean LS
and when you type or and and are you using the booleans | and &
(|| and &&,the hat and the v whichever notation you like )
what do the brackets () normally represent in programming
ask your self what is an ambiguity and what are "terminals"
what do the rules bexpr and bterm attempt represent
how does one normally write boolean logic?? or concatenate sets of booleans
 
",","()","a" are all terminals and "|" is not the logical or . it is the or for regular expressions(either expr1 or expr2)