Remove now mostly obsolete note about transitioning to C++

diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
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--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -49,11 +49,6 @@ Here are some hints to make the process smoother:
 
 ## Code style
 
-Ccache was written in C99 until 2019 when it started being converted to C++11.
-The conversion is a slow work in progress, which is why there is some C-style
-code left. Please refrain from doing large C to C++ conversions; do it little by
-little.
-
 Source code formatting is defined by `.clang-format` in the root directory. The
 format is loosely based on [LLVM's code formatting
 style](https://llvm.org/docs/CodingStandards.html) with some exceptions. Run